Ahead of the Speak Up for Justice panel, JURIST Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas spoke with Judge Eleazar Javier Saldivia, a former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge now living in exile, ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Some had waited decades, others only years. They came from 41 nations but took the same oath. All became Americans on the same day.

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...

Russian authorities said at least three people were killed as Ukraine claimed an attack on a military plant in the city of ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

Civil and political freedoms in Venezuela have sharply deteriorated over the past year, according to the United Nations’ top ...

Venezuelan opposition member Pedro Urruchurtu spoke to the UN about spending more than 400 days sheltering in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas as Maduro operatives had rifles pointed at him and his ...

After the Trump administration scored a legal victory in its efforts to end the temporary protected status program, a Florida ...

Economic sanctions, as a general principle, have a history of failure in the 20th and 21st centuries, which penalize everyday ...

While bombs and invasions draw widespread condemnation, economic sanctions—marketed as peaceful and humane ...