Three publishing companies on Friday settled an antitrust lawsuit filed by attorneys general of 49 states, the District of Columbia and five US territories and commonwealths, who had accused the nation's top publishers of a...

US President Barack Obama's campaign staff and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday urged the US Supreme Court to reject Ohio's request for an emergency stay of an injunction against...

A UN official on Thursday released a report indicating that the government of Iran is torturing human rights activists and threatening the activists' families with rape or death. In a report to the UN General Assembly UN...

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled Friday that an Alabama law defining marriage as between one man and one woman bars a woman from adopting her female partner's child. The case concerned...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on Iran Friday to immediately stop all executions , including 11 planned for Saturday. The OHCHR stated that Iran has failed to provide the...

Nigerian government security forces and Islamist militant group Boko Haram have likely both committed crimes against humanity in the conflict between the two groups which began in 2009, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported [text, PDF;...

The High Court of Botswana on Friday struck down longstanding local customary laws that prevented women from inheriting their family home. Judge Key Dingake ruled that such laws are not in line with the...

The Special Court for the Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Friday sentenced four men to prison terms ranging from 18 months to 2 years on contempt charges stemming from allegations of witness...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday upheld a preliminary injunction against an Ohio state election law adopted in 2006 that discards provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Pursuant to...

Mexico's Senate gave final approval to a federal anti-money laundering law Thursday in the nation's latest effort to subdue the country's powerful drug cartels. Passed by the lower congressional house earlier this year, the legislation...