The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday began hearings at The Hague in the cases against six Kenyans accused of crimes against humanity stemming from 2007 post-election violence . The hearings will confirm the charges...

Director General of the UN Educations, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova , expressed concern Thursday over the abuse of journalists in Syria . She stated: "Torture and detention will never convince the people...

A New Mexico judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the "Residency Verification Program" , announced last month by Governor Susana Martinez . Judge Sarah Singleton stated that "irreparable injury will occur in the form of constitutional...

The Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg on Thursday accused European governments of numerous human rights violations during counter-terrorism efforts over the past 10 years. Hammarberg said that many European...

A public employees union has filed a lawsuit in Indiana state court challenging a state law disallowing future recognition of public employee collective bargaining rights. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 62 , which...

Liberia's National Election Commission (NEC) on Wednesday announced that all four proposed amendments to the Republic's constitution were voted down in last week's national referendum. One defeated proposal was to move back the national election...

Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday urged the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle to preserve two lawsuits over the warrantless surveillance of US citizens. EFF argued that...

The Colombian Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the murder conviction against ex-politician Alberto Santofimio Botero for the 1989 killing of Luis Carlos Galan, a political opponent of the drug cartels. The court issued an arrest...

Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was indicted on Wednesday for corruption. The country's Bureau for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) alleges Sanader received a pay-off of more than 3.6...

An Idaho woman has filed suit seeking to prevent prosecution of other women under the state's standing abortion laws. Mother of three Jennie Linn McCormack was prosecuted earlier this year under a 1972 state...