UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Wednesday said that the Thai government should fully investigate the whereabouts of at least 82 people listed as disappeared, and criminalize forced disappearance through legislation....
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A sharia high court in Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced cleric Abdulaziz Dauda and nine others to death by hanging for committing blasphemy against the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The prosecution claimed that Duada, a preacher also known as Abdul...
The Obama administration on Monday called on the US Supreme to strike down a recently passed Texas abortion law which the administration argues will harm women's health. According to US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli , the law...
A court in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, on Wednesday agreed to hear China's first legal challenge over a refusal to issue same-sex marriage applications. A 26-year-old man filed a case against a civil affairs bureau...
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state legislature does have the power to use advisory ballot measures. The decision will allow lawmakers to place a nonbinding question on ballots to ask voters whether they...
The high court of Bangladesh on Monday upheld the death sentence of Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes committed in the country's war for independence against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami's conviction was upheld on charges of genocide,...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced executive actions on gun control . The plan would require those in the business of selling firearms, including those selling firearms at gun shows, to be licensed...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. The complaint was filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that the civilian death toll in Yemen has reached nearly 2,800 over nine months of fighting. The UN reported that the number of...
Three former members of the Bosnian Muslim armed forces were arrested on Monday in Tulza, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for allegedly killing as many as 10 Serb civilians in Srebrenica in July 1992. The victims were killed...
