Disgraced former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries once urged prison doctors to find him incompetent for trial, a ...

I woke up to my sister Fadwa calling me, and I was terrified. ‘Jehad, State Security were here. They took mom.’ I feel I ...

From voting rights to wages to housing assistance, these officials advocate for systemic change to reduce incarceration.

South Africa has reburied the remains of at least 63 Khoi and San people after they were dug up many years ago and sent to Europe for research.

One of South Africa’s most notorious apartheid police commanders has testified at a new inquiry into the 1985 killing of four ...

Winston Churchill: legend, leader, but what was he really like? Discover the surprising, complex story behind Britain's ...

On a morning last October, more than 50 women and men walked into Paynesville magistrates’ court and told the prosecutors ...

Prominent human rights activist in Tunisia, Saadia Mosbah, has received an 8-year prison sentence, which many deem an effort to silence her.

After more than a century of German and South African rule, Namibia finally gained its independence on this day in 1990.

Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a ...

On March 21, 1960, police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire on a crowd protesting the country’s “pass laws,” killing ...

Controversial songs from the last 50 years. Not a year goes by without some music controversy, and 2025 was no exception.