Argentinian Judge Carlos Bonadio ordered the arrest of current senator and former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Thursday for her alleged involvement in a cover-up of...

The US House of Representatives voted 423-3 on Wednesday to approveH. Con. Res. 90 condemning "ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of...

Australia's House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, with just four votes in opposition. The new law changes the definition of marriage from "the union of a man and a...

The European Commission said Thursday that they plan to take Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to the Court of Justice over their failure to accept their quota of refugees. This decision comes six months after...

A group of UN human rights experts called Thursday for the Bahraini government to respect and guarantee Shia leader and cleric, Isa Qassim, his human rights. In June 2016 Qassim was stripped of his Bahraini citizenship, putting him...

Ethiopian officials have renewed their campaign of collecting intelligence against government critics abroad through the use of commercial spyware, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. According to Citizen Lab , an independent research group in Toronto,...

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday approved a resolution condemning systematic human rights violations against the Rohingya minority and the acts of violence committed by Myanmar security forces, calling instead for a peaceful resolution. Thirty-three...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said on Tuesday that Mexico's proposed security legislation will not assist its armed forces in combating the war on drugs. The Law on Internal Security [text, PDF,...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that luxury brands can prohibit their distributors from selling products on third-party Internet sites like Amazon. The ruling came from a decision referred to the court by the Higher Regional Court,...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday revived a lawsuit brought against Alibaba Group Holding Ltd by the Chinese online retailer's shareholders last year. The suit alleged that in addition...