Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on Cambodia's donors to oppose a land titling campaign created by Prime Minister Hun Sen, alleging that it lacks accountability and transparency and is prone to abuse. Hun...
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A Guatemalan court on Monday ordered the government to apologize to the Ixil Maya, an indigenous people, for acts of genocide that were committed against them when former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was in...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement on Friday welcoming a landmark agreement between Serbia and Kosovo regarding membership in the European Union (EU) that he hopes will help bring stability to the Balkans....
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday released a statement reacting to statements by federal officials that the recently apprehended Boston bombing suspect will not be read his Miranda rights before being...
The Supreme Court of India on Sunday upheld a death penalty sentence against Devinderpal Singh Bhullar , a convicted terrorist. This ruling allows the Indian government to continue a trend toward use of execution that began...
Lawyers for prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay said on Monday that the US government has started to notify them when their clients participating in a hunger strike are being force-fed. The hunger strike , which...
The Montreal Police on Friday arrested 279 protestors at an allegedly illegal demonstration aimed at protesting police tactics. The protesters were speaking out against Montreal's Municipal Bylaw P-6 , which allows the police to declare illegal any...
An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit against popular satirist Bassem Youssef , stating that the Islamist lawyer who brought the suit did not have standing. The lawyer, a member of the Muslim...
Kenya's Supreme Court ruled on Saturday that the results of the country's presidential election earlier this month are valid, confirming that Uhuru Kenyatta , the son of Kenya's first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, will be the next...
The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri on Thursday ruled that a law requiring a couple applying for a marriage license to sign it in the presence of the...
