UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called Saturday for a "swift, full and transparent investigation" into airstrikes that hit a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, over...

The last remaining British Guantanamo detainee is on a hunger strike, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Shaker Aamer told the Daily Mail via his lawyer that he is still subject to physical abuse despite reports that he will...

The company that manufactures American Spirit cigarettes is the subject of a new class action lawsuit . The lawsuit, filed by a Florida law firm Wednesday against Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company and its parent company...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Government of Somalia and encouraged the US to follow suit. The Convention on the Rights of the...

Officials from the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday that they are sending teams to review three Colorado prisons as part of President Barack Obama's ongoing efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Officials plan to...

A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday unanimously granted a request from Attorney General Scott Pruitt to halt all of the state's scheduled executions to allow for an investigation into...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday granted certiorari in 13 cases, following its annual long conference Monday. In Bank Markazi v. Peterson the court will rule on a separation of powers...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday prohibiting the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from enforcing...

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Djamel Ameziane filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) seeking reparations from the US government for human rights violations he alleges that he endured while in custody....