Pakistani police on Friday announced that eight of the ten men charged with the 2012 attack of teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai were acquitted of all charges by an anti-terrorism court in April. This information...
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Kenyan police on Thursday charged five men in connection with the attack on Garissa University by al-Shabaab militants in April. The attack by Somali Islamist gunmen killed 148 students, making it the nation's worst militant attack in nearly 20...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday called on new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate reports of both military abuses and crimes committed by the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram...
The chief judge for the US District Court of Guam on Friday struck down the territory's same-sex marriage ban. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed in April by same-sex couple Kathleen Aguero and Loretta Pangelinan...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Friday upheld a French court's decision allowing Vincent Lambert the right to die, stating it did not violate article 2 of European Convention on Human...
The California Senate on Thursday voted 23-14 to approve a controversial right to die bill . The bill would protect doctors who aide individuals with terminal conditions in dying. The bill's impact is limited to...
An appeals court in New York on Wednesday granted a law license to an immigrant who was brought to the US illegally as a child. Cesar Vargas was brought to the US from Mexico by his mother...
The UN torture prevention body on Wednesday urged the Philippines to tackle urgent prison overcrowding issues and improve independent monitoring of detention facilities. During a visit by the six-member delegation, the Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT)...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday that in light of allegations of sexual abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) by foreign troops not under UN control, an External Independent Review will be set up to examine...
Colombia's Congress voted on Wednesday to limit presidents to a single term, a measure backed by President Juan Manuel Santos . The presidential term limit undoes a law passed by Santos' predecessor and rival, Alvaro Uribe,...
