Bahraini authorities have brought charges against 15 police officers for alleged "mistreatment of inmates in custody," according to a press release by the Bahrain Information Affairs Authority (IAA) . The charges were brought after the government received...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday praised the work of human rights activists for the right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people while calling for an end to discrimination based on sexual...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday permanently enjoined a Florida law that barred doctors from discussing the dangers of gun ownership with patients. Judge Marcia Cooke...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld a South Carolina program allowing public high school students to earn credit for religious courses taken off campus during the school day. The program...
Greek police exhibit a pattern of using excessive force and violence against demonstrators and administrative detainees, including migrants, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. AI criticized Greek authorities for referring to instances of police violence as...
French authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested a suspected terrorist alleged to have ties to al-Qaeda . Little information has been revealed about the suspect except that he was born in Tunisia in 1977 and resided...
Syrian authorities have been maintaining secret detention facilities to hold and torture prisoners, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The report, compiled based on accounts from victims and former military and intelligence officials,...
The UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice released a report Monday calling for a focus on advancing women's rights during political transitions. The group's priorities are discrimination against women in...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay renewed her call Monday to the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) . She stressed...
Google on Monday offered to settle antitrust claims by the European Competition Commission (ECC) . The company's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt , sent a letter to ECC Joaquin Almunia [official...
