The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a November 2012 report on Friday, stating the crisis in Mali has led to...

Judges for the Second Court of Appeals of Milan on Friday rejected a request by the lawyers of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berulsconi to suspend his appellate proceedings until...

The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday denied defense motions filed in both the 9/11 military commission trial and the 2000 USS Cole bombing trial. Defense counsel for accused 9/11 ...

A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern on Friday over the impeachment and removal of Sri Lanka's Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake . In a statement, the...

Myanmar's campaign of shelling on the state of Kachin violates the laws of war , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday, the same day the government announced a ceasefire. President Thein Sein ordered...

A court in Bahrain on Thursday released human rights activist Sayed Yousif Al-Muhafda on bail pending trial for charges of spreading false news to harm security, according to Amnesty International (AI) . Al-Muhafda,...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a union challenging Indiana's right-to-work law on the grounds that the challenge could not succeed...

Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released from prison on Thursday, after spending over two years in prison, her husband said. Sotoudeh left prison in Tehran for three days and was...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the country's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reached an agreement on Thursday on a new constitution. Details of the agreement have not yet been made...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against federal law enforcement officials by men who claim they were illegally detained after 9/11 [JURIST...