Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) on Tuesday announced the signing of two pieces of legislation restricting abortions in the state. The Abortion Reporting Accuracy and Parental Rights Act requires unemancipated minors...

Uruguay's Senate voted 16-15 Tuesday to overturn a 1986 law granting amnesty to members of the military junta that ruled the country between 1973 and 1985. The decision to...

The UN announced on Tuesday the completion of a report on allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the report would not be released until President Mahinda Rajapaksa has time...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced on Tuesday the appointment of three "high-level experts" to lead the Commission of Inquiry charged with investigating allegations of human rights abuses in the Ivory Coast following elections....

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized Tuesday before he was scheduled to appear before Egypt's public prosecutor for questioning about his alleged roles in protester deaths and embezzlement of government money. The chief prosecutor on...

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday pointed to the executions of opposition fighters as the most recent evidence that forces supporting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi continue to commit war crimes. Researchers from AI...

Iraqi authorities must end attacks on peaceful protesters , according to a Tuesday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "Days of Rage: Protests and Repression in Iraq" , asserts that Iraqi and Kurdistan authorities...

An Egyptian military court convicted blogger Maikel Nabil and sentenced him to three years in prison Monday for criticizing the army and raising questions over reform in the wake of revolution, according to reports from Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara announced in a televised speech Monday that he will ask his justice minister to begin legal proceedings against former president Laurent Gbagbo . Ouattara guaranteed the security of Gbagbo and his family...

The Philippine anti-graft court, the Sandiganbayan , said Monday that it ordered Imelda Marcos, wife of deceased Philippine ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos , to return USD $280,000 in state funds stolen by her husband. The money was...