The Nanping Municipal Intermediate People's Court of Fujian found in favor of two environmental groups on Thursday under a new environmental law. The court ordered defendants to restore destroyed vegetation and pay compensation for the damage that resulted...
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There is evidence of recent unlawful police killings in Mexico said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The report suggests that police action which left eight civilians dead in the city of Apatzingán on January 6,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that more immigrants in detention should receive bond hearings and those held more than a year should get additional hearings. The court held that immigrants...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama issued an order on Wednesday prohibiting Alabama Governor Robert Bentley from terminating the provider agreement between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood...
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman expressed deep concerns Wednesday regarding human rights violations in the country. His investigation revealed that workers from North Korea are being systematically...
A rise in defense spending and a lack of oversight in Middle Eastern and North African governments puts these nations in a high risk for defense corruption, according to a report released Thursday by the Transparency International...
Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz was released from detention and sent back to his home country of Mauritania, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Thursday. The Guantanamo Review Task Force, created in...
Serbia has yet to completely investigate and adequately prosecute war crimes that occurred in the 1990s conflict, according to a report released Tuesday by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) . The...
Amnesty International (AI) said Wednesday that Australia's maritime border control agents have engaged in significant criminal activity, bribery and abusive treatment of women, men and children who are seeking asylum. A new report titled By Hook or...
Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez of Spain's National Court charged five suspected leaders of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Tuesday with crimes against humanity for their participation in the 2004 attacks that left...
