Iraqi leaders on Saturday urged the country's Supreme Court to rule on the recent electoral appeals panel decision allowing about 500 candidates who had been banned for alleged ties to the outlawed Baath party to run in...

The head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Friday reassured the Lebanese public that the investigation is on track. When asked about the progress of the investigation into the death of...

A US federal court Friday ordered a final judgment of $22 million against Charles Emmanuel "Chuckie" Taylor, Jr." to be paid to five torture victims. Charles was charged with torture while he was in...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit that accuses Chiquita Brands International Inc. of assisting Marxist rebels who killed Colombian missionaries may go forward. The suit was brought by family...

Center for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group International v. Kenya, African Commission on Human and People's Rights, February 4, 2010 [ruling that the government of Kenya violated the rights of indigenous Endorois people when it forcibly evicted...

The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Friday upheld the convictions of two soldiers found guilty of offenses committed as guards at Abu Ghraib prison . Army Spc. Sabrina Harman...

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Thursday denounced proposed legislation in the Ugandan parliament that would implement harsh punishments for homosexual behavior, including the death penalty in some circumstances. Obama...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday charged former Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Volislav Seselj with contempt of the...

A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced pro-democracy writer and rights activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy to three-and-a-half years in prison on assault charges. Thuy and her husband, who received two years' house arrest, were convicted ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday urging the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to reject the amended class action settlement...