UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement Tuesday asserting that Israeli plans to expand settlements in the West Bank violate international law. The statement was delivered by Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process...

The Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor released a report Tuesday emphasizing the essential nature of the rule of law in eliminating poverty. The report's findings indicated that a vast...

Last month's constitutional referendum in Myanmar approving a new national charter put forward by the military has effectively "washed away" any mandate to govern claimed by opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD), state-run newspaper New Light...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday called on China to release the remaining imprisoned Tiananmen Square protesters as part of a wider effort to improve the nation's human rights image before the 2008 Olympic Games. HRW...

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal Monday heard an Islamic advocacy group's allegations that a 2006 article published in Canadian news magazine Maclean's discriminated against Muslims. Mohamed Elmasry and Naiyer Habib, members of the Canadian...

Voters in two rural Bolivian states Sunday voted in favor of autonomy measures that would allow the provincial governments to form legislatures, gather police forces and become more independent of national...

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders said Tuesday that it will likely take months for parliament to pass a proposed constitutional amendment package that would restore the judiciary deposed by President...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday encouraged the Russian parliament to reject a bill that would allow officials to close media outlets suspected of spreading libel or slander. The measure, which passed the parliament's first reading [St. Petersburg...

A California ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage is set to appear on the November ballot, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said Monday. If approved by voters, the California...

A Chinese official has dismissed a new US report on the state of Chinese human rights, calling it incorrect and groundless . Findings in the US Department of State's 2008 Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports , released late...