The 25-member European Union (EU) has issued a statement of support for a draft resolution proposing a new UN Human Rights Council to replace the generally-discredited Human Rights Commission , which...

The former head of the Human Rights Office at the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq has told the BBC that extra-judicial killings and torture have become "endemic" in Iraq, and that up to 75% of...

For the first time since the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals convened in August 2004, a presiding military judge has said that he will examine potential evidence to determine if it was obtained through torture before ruling on admissibility....

The six men convicted in October 2004 of committing sexual abuse against women and underage girls on the British possession of Pitcairn Island over a period of 30 years have lost their latest appeals. Appearing...

The Montenegrin government agreed Tuesday to delay the republic's independence referendum from Serbia originally scheduled for April 30 and accept a controversial formula proposed by the European Union (EU) . The EU said...

Two British court-appointed lawyers assisting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have submitted a motion to subpoena former US president Bill Clinton to testify at Milosevic's trial before the International Criminal Tribunal...

The Russian Education Ministry faces a lawsuit calling for it to remove evolution from the national science curriculum. The parents of Maria Shreiber, a 15 year old schoolgirl from St. Petersburg, have argued in...

Belarus newspaper Zgoda has been criminally charged for reprinting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. The Belarus State Security Committee , still known as...

The Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has taken jurisdiction over a case investigating Guatemalan officers accused of genocide and torture during the civil unrest from 1978 to 1986. The allegations were made 1999 by Guatemalan Nobel...

Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program [video...