Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) sued the Indiana State Department of Health on Thursday, challenging a new regulation on abortion facilities. Under the law, facilities prescribing Mifepristone, the...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar , Tomas Ojea Quintana, on Thursday applauded recent government efforts to encourage a culture of respect between clashing political and religious sects but recognized...

The National Security Agency (NSA) obtained up to 56,000 unauthorized communications by misrepresenting the scope of its collection activities when it requested permission to collect documents, according to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinion ...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to a victim of torture at...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip to halt all executions, especially those of child offenders. HRW is especially concerned with the specific case...

The constitutional court of Zimbabwe ruled Tuesday that July's presidential elections were fair, effectively allowing President Robert Mugabe to continue his 33-year rule. This ruling is controversial because the complaint by presidential hopeful Morgan...

An Oklahoma County District Court judge on Monday granted an injunction of Oklahoma House Bill 2226 , a state law that requires minors to obtain a prescription for emergency contraception. HB 2226 was challenged by...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed Assembly Bill 3371 into law on Monday, banning licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation conversion services to minors. New Jersey is now the second state to ban such practices...

Chinese writer, lawyer and human rights advocate Yang Maodong, commonly known by his pen-name Guo Feixiong , became the second leader of the New Citizens movement to be arrested on suspicion of disrupting the peace on Saturday. This...

Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi on Saturday proposed formally dissolving the non-governmental organization registration of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in an effort to force the group underground. This proposal comes after Friday's protest orchestrated by...