A federal judge on Friday blocked Michigan's ban on domestic partner benefits for employees who work for public schools or local governments, saying the plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday warned that recent appointments to Afghanistan's top human rights body compromise its independence, recommending that President Hamid Karzai reconsider the appointments and...

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Thursday over a new Kansas law passed in April requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions that they are ending the life of a "whole, separate, unique, living human being."...

Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma , on Friday unanimously approved a ban on the adoption of orphans by foreign same-sex couples and single foreign nationals who reside in countries where same-sex marriage is legal....

The Venice Commission , a European rights commission, published a report on Friday criticizing Hungary's recent amendments to its constitution. While the commission praised Hungary's efforts to strengthen it's rule of law, the report cited several...

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution the use of foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War , responding to an influx of foreign militants on both sides of the conflict, including Lebanese...

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. Vermont became the seventeenth state in the US to decriminalize marijuana, adding to a growing trend of...

The UN released a letter on Thursday from UN human rights experts voicing their concern that two Russian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been charged by Russian prosecutors following their involvement with the UN Committee against Torture [official...

Kenya's ambassador to the UN, Macharia Kamau, has sent a letter to the UN Security Council asking that the International Criminal Court (ICC) charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) troops committed numerous war crimes, including rape and murder, as they retreated from an advance by the 23 March Movement (M23) rebels last November, according to a UN report ...