Amnesty International issued a report finding that all 50 US states fall below international standards on police use of lethal force. US police forces have killed 522 people this year.
The Obama administration sent a report to Congress criticizing Egypt for human rights abuses and lack of progress toward democracy but still supporting $1.3 billion in mostly military aid.
Indigenous leaders from across Argentina's 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires to coordinate resistance to dispossession from their ancestral lands by development interests.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of a Muslim man in Boston by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Activists in Spain staged a creative protest against the country's new "Citizen Safety Law"—projecting holograms of themselves that marched on the parliament building in Madrid.
Turkey and the Kurdish rebel movement announced a landmark political deal that calls for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms and join the civil political process.
Three young immigrants in Brooklyn were arrested and charged with plotting to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS. But were the plans invented by an FBI infiltrator?
A coalition of international rights groups called for the release of three Syrian journalists who have been held without trial for three years under the country's Anti-Terrorism Law.
Venezuelan authorities issued new regulations allowing soldiers to use deadly force against demonstrators—drawing protest even from sectors traditionally close to the government.
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton announced a new Strategic Response Group with special weapons to combat terrorists—and protesters.
Human Rights Watch calls China's proposed counter-terrorism legislation a "recipe for abuses" that would instate "total digital surveillance," and allow foreign military missions.
A court in Tajikistan sentenced human rights lawyer Sukhrat Kudratov to nine years in prison, in what Amnesty International called "a serious setback for the freedom of expression."
