UK top judge Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Igor Judge on Friday released his three-year report detailing how recent reforms to the judicial system have placed an increased burden on the judiciary that will...

The Domestic Workers Convention (DWC) was ratified by the Philippines on Monday, giving the international treaty its second ratification and paving the way for the convention to enter full force of law. The International Labor Organization (ILO) [official...

Former president of Mongolia Nambar Enkhbayar was convicted Wednesday on graft charges and sentenced to four years in prison. The Sukhbaatar district court also ordered the confiscation of more than 30 million...

Two independent UN human rights experts noted Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday by calling on the international community to find solutions to the persistent exclusion of Roma denizens from larger society in all countries. "Pharrajimos" is observed...

The Colombia Ministry of Justice on Friday announced a new initiative to solve the problem of overcrowding in the nation's prisons. INPEC , Colombia's prison institute, has begun the transfer of 800 inmates [Columbia...

Slovakian authorities on Thursday announced that they have filed new charges against a 97-year-old Hungarian man arrested in Budapest last month on allegations of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The charges concern facilitating the...

The Egyptian government announced Thursday that it has requested the release of the last of its citizens currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Egyptian Tarek al-Sawah, 54, has been held at Guantanamo for 11...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday issued an emergency injunction to block enforcement of a new Arizona abortion regulation that will ban abortions after 20...

Apple filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday requesting that the court sanction Samsung Electronics by ruling in Apple's favor in the ongoing patent...

Japanese authorities on Wednesday began a criminal investigation into last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster . The Fukushima Prosecutor accepted a criminal complaint filed in June by more than 1,300 people against Tokyo Electric Power Company...