Forty-six countries, which comprise the Strasbourg-based human rights organisation, the Council of Europe, have issued a far-reaching political declaration that could influence how judges handle ...

Historian Joseph Ellis argues the American Revolution was a revolutionary shift in political thought, where power flowed from the people. Ellis identifies the failure to end slavery and the ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely "proclaimed." Couriers carried the printed version by ...

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday said it will hear a case from British Columbia on the legal breadth of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in domestic laws. B.C. had ...

President Donald Trump has approved California’s request for a Presidential Emergency Declaration to support ongoing response operations tied to the chemical incident in Garden Grove, Gov. Gavin ...

States across America’s deep south are being accused of a major assault on Black voting rights, as their Republican leaders race to redraw political maps ahead of the midterm elections. It’s the first ...

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...

Jose Guadalupe Ramos’ cellmates inside a remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Southern California could see that he desperately needed help. Ramos, who was struggling to ...

The Declaration of Independence justified the American colonies' decision to separate from Great Britain. The Declaration established the foundation for the U.S. Constitution, which was drafted over a ...

At least 80 deaths and more than 300 suspected cases in the DRC, while Uganda reports spread from travellers What is Ebola and why is WHO treating outbreak as global emergency? An Ebola outbreak in ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of international concern. The agency said the outbreak in DR Congo's ...