The UN General Assembly Thursday adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a non-binding treaty outlining the global human rights of approximately 370 million indigenous people and bans discrimination against them....

Canadian chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand Thursday resisted calls by Canadian lawmakers to invoke his discretionary powers, reserved for exceptional circumstances, to require women to remove traditional Muslim niqabs or burqas when they vote...

The US Department of Defense released censored audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Thursday after months of controversy. The recording...

Kenyan lawmakers have approved a bill limiting the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to investigating crimes committed after 2003. The amendment, deleting portions of the 2003 Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act , will make it impossible for the...

A Russian court Thursday upheld a ruling that a new investigation into former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev was illegal. The Moscow City Court supported Moscow's Basmanny...

Authorities in the United Kingdom are endangering the privacy of law-abiding Britons by increasingly using mass surveillance to profile people rather than targeting individual criminal suspects using intelligence-led policing, UK rights group Liberty concluded in a report...

Human Rights Watch concluded in a report released Thursday that is unclear whether sex offender laws "do more harm or good," noting that they prevent further harm to children but that they also encourage...

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters Wednesday he would lead opposition to the nomination of former US Solicitor General Theodore Olson to the post of US attorney general. Olson was...

Negotiations have collapsed in Iraq over a controversial oil bill that would govern the distribution and refinement process and give the national government control over oil revenue, the New York Times reported Thursday. The bill, which...

Serbia will increase efforts to locate and arrest several war criminals to curry a favorable report from Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) when she advises EU officials...