Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) issued a joint statement Friday calling on the Nepal Parliament to reject amnesty legislation that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court [official...

The trial of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters resumed on Saturday. Morsi appeared with 14 co-defendants before the court for the alleged acts committed at the Ittihadiya Presidential...

A New York state judge on Friday approved an $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America (BOA) and almost two dozen mortgage securities investors, holding that the 2011 agreement was reached in good faith. In a 54-page...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Canadian government on Friday to institute an independent national inquiry into violence against women in the country. HRW also urged the government to establish greater accountability for cases of...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Rupert Colville on Friday voiced extreme concern about the increasing amount of violent attacks on members of the media in Egypt. Many attacks came on Saturday when...

A Pakistani court on Friday rejected a request by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to lift his travel ban and allow him to go abroad for medical treatment. Instead the court issued an arrest warrant...

The Maine Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a school violated Maine's Human Rights Act when it refused to allow a transgender fifth-grader, Nicole Maines, to use the girls' bathroom. Maines had...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the state's new gun control law , while still acknowledging the Second Amendment ...

The High Court of Kenya on Friday refused to stop the arrest of journalist Walter Barasa, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly disrupting the prosecution in the crimes against...

The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday called for an investigation into torture allegations against Ukraine following widespread arrests of protesters, which have since been offered amnesty. Dmytro Bulatov, a...