Kentucky official Kim Davis, held in contempt for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses said Monday that she will not block her clerks from issuing the licenses. Davis was returning to work Monday following her release [JURIST...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Tuesday that approximately 8,000 people have been killed in Eastern Ukraine since April of last year. Much of the killing has...

Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina , labeled a "flight risk," was jailed in a preventive prison pending investigation on Tuesday following an indictment over corruption charges. The judge gave the prosecution...

California on Tuesday agreed to restrict its controversial practices of solitary confinement. The class action lawsuit was brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , which alleged that approximately 3,000 prisoners were kept in isolated...

The trial of Bosco Ntaganda , a former Congolese military leader also known as "The Terminator," began at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. The rebel leader has pleaded innocent to the...

The Indian Supreme Court on Monday stayed an order from the Rajasthan High Court that would have made the practice of Santhara , or voluntarily fasting to death practiced by the Jains [BBC...

Burkina Faso's Constitutional Council rejected opposition presidential candidate Eddie Constance Konboigo on Saturday ahead of the elections scheduled for October. Konboigo was head of ousted president Blaise Compaore's Congress for Democracy and Progress party, and he was one of...

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced plans Tuesday to issue new guidelines significantly limiting the use of racial profiling in policing as an effort to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Frosh stated...

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday held that former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt can stand for trial for genocide and crimes against humanity but cannot be sentenced because he suffers from dementia. The court held that a...

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was sent back to jail on Sunday, one month after his 13-year prison sentence was commuted to house arrest. Nasheed was originally transferred to house arrest after he developed health issues. The order allowing...