The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday upheld the death sentences of six defendants, including three journalists, charged with espionage for leaking state secrets to Qatar. While the defendants were originally sentenced to death in May , the Egyptian...

The Mexican Congress on Friday passed several anti-corruption bills that would increase the severity of penalties for corruption charges. Should President Enrique Peña Nieto approve the bill, public officials would face increased fines...

The Assembly of Kosovo voted press release] Friday to extend the European mandate known as EU Rule of Law mission (EULEX ) for two years. The move comes after the EU voted ...

More than 40 prosecutors in Virginia filed an amicus brief Friday in support of a challenge to the governor's executive action to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons individuals in the state. The prosecutors...

The UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law called on the world's governments to take quick, effective steps towards ensuring women are granted equal rights to health, including reproductive and sexual health. The...

UN expert Maina Kiai , in presenting his report on religious, free market, political, and nationalist or cultural fundamentalism, said Friday that fundamentalist intolerance is growing throughout the globe and is directly contributing to infringements of...

Three human rights experts of the UN Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) on Friday echoed previous calls for a stop to violence after their second visit Burundi. There has been a considerable drop in the...

The Beijing Intellectual Property Bureau ordered Apple to stop sale of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Beijing due to claims by Chinese regulators that Apple Inc. violated a patent held by a Chinese company. According to...

Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 citizens since November, and arrested tens of thousands more, in hopes of squashing protest in the Oromia region, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

According to a colleague familiar with the case, prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer Xia Lin was put on trial for fraud on Friday during a "far-reaching crackdown on political dissent." Xia had been detained in 2014 by Beijing police...