The International Court has set out clear rules for addressing climate change – and the rights of states to take legal action ...

Vulnerable nations see the top court's opinion as a route to reparations but high-emitting countries reject any legal ...

Human Rights Day offers a meaningful occasion to reflect on global progress in advancing fundamental human rights, particularly as we commemorate the ...

Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between ...

An advocacy group has called on France's highest administrative court to recognize that France is not doing enough to fight ...

If there is one image that encapsulates COP30, this year’s global climate change conference in Belém, Brazil, it might be this: Indigenous activists, in traditional clothing and regalia, storming past ...

Global Voices spoke with the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA) about their work and how it connects with COP30’s focus on ...

A group of nations is pushing for justice and accountability in Palestine. Can their effort help bring an end to the impunity ...

Indigenous leaders, farmers, conservationists, and community activists—risk their lives opposing the destructive exploitation of natural resources. Global Witness defines them as people who “take a ...

On Nov. 5, a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging President Trump’s authority to impose ...

Since Trump began his second term this year, relations between the United States and South Africa have deteriorated rapidly.

Judges at the International Criminal Court have sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years ...