An Oslo City Court on Thursday sentenced a Rwandan man to 21 years for being an accomplice to the 1994 Rwandan genocide . His conviction was specifically related to 2,000 killings during...

An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered that the former chief-of-staff for deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak , Zakaria Azmi, be released from prison after he was granted a retrial in a corruption case. Azmi...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern Wednesday over reports that three Palestinians being held in Israeli custody are in poor health. Tarek Qa'adan and Jafar Azzidine have been on hunger strike...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday granted class action status to a lawsuit brought to stop the New York Police Department (NYPD) from...

Military lawyers from the US Navy on Tuesday said that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantanamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege. The officials indicated that devices used to record audio and video...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was fined $2,000 on Wednesday for contempt of court after a hearing in Kiev. The judge assessed the fine after the hearing, which was being...

The US Senate voted 78-22 on Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which expired in 2011. Last year the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that Israel violated of the laws of war with at least 18 airstrikes launched during the November 2012 fighting in Gaza . HRW stated that the airstrikes...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay unveiled a report Wednesday criticizing Sri Lanka for failing to investigate widespread reports of killings and other atrocities during the latter days of the nation's 26-year civil...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday that the death toll resulting from two years of armed conflict in Syria is approaching 70,000. The conflict and subsequent deaths arose out of a revolt against...