The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota filed suit in state court Tuesday against the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) seeking the release of footage from...

The Constitutional Court of Tajikistan has affirmed the legality of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Tajikistan that would allow the possibility of current President Emomali Rahmon remaining president for life. The amendments were...

Judge Vernon Broderick for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on Thursday that suspended Deputy UN Ambassador Francis Lorenzo cannot claim diplomatic immunity on bribery charges. Lorenzo, representing the Dominican Republic, has...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the decision of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , holding Monday that a Somali torture claim lacked a "sufficient nexus"...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Friday his office is investigating allegations of sexual abuse against children in the Central African Republic (CAR) by EU forces. Most of the alleged abuse...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that Burundian authorities failed to provide entry to independent rights experts dispatched by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate rights violations in...

French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira resigned Wednesday after expressing disagreement with the President Francois Hollande's proposal to strip convicted terrorists of their French citizenship. The plan, proposed as a revision to the French constitution ,...

The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korea Marzuki Darusman called Friday for leader Kim Jong-un to be held criminally responsible for the human rights conditions in the nation. While on a five-day mission in...

Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) forces and Kurdish militias are committing mass destruction in northern Iraq that may amount to war crimes, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. AI claims that the KRG...

The US State Department released a statement Tuesday expressing concern over reports of "serious human rights violations and abuses" in Burundi. Allegations of mass graves, sexual violence by security forces, and enforced disappearances and torture are...