Alabama coal company awarded landmark $256 million over alleged human rights violations in Colombia

A federal jury in Alabama last week awarded Drummond Co. what is believed to be the second largest plaintiff’s verdict in the state’s history. The $256 million award came in a decade-long lawsuit ...

Priests say ICE contractor GEO rejected shareholder vote on human rights review

By Ross Kerber Feb 9 (Reuters) - A set of Catholic investors said on Monday private-prison operator GEO Group has rejected a ...

HRW says 'global human rights system is in peril'

Rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) paints one of its bleakest pictures in years of the global human rights situation in ...

What a Human Rights Watch report says about the economic toll of backsliding rights in Asia

Widespread backsliding on protections of basic rights is taking a toll on Asian economies as growing inequality leaves the ...

Could British companies be sued in the UK for human rights abuses committed overseas?

Powerful companies may be dragged into court for human rights harms they claim to know nothing about, according to a new ...

Chinese national who exposed rights abuses is freed from US detention after being granted asylum

Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released after more than five ...