Italy's Chamber of Deputies approved a bill on Wednesday to outlaw certain forms of torture. The new law defines torture as "acts, single or repeated, causing suffering and trauma such as to harm...

The EU and Japan formally agreed upon an outline on Thursday for a free-trade deal between two of the world's largest economic powers. Although the deal still requires further negotiations, it is expected that 99 percent of trade...

The New Zealand Parliament on Thursday formally apologized to the hundreds of men who were criminally convicted under antiquated anti-homosexuality laws. The country's House of Representatives stated that it apologizes "to those homosexual New Zealanders who...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled Thursday that South Africa violated its obligation by failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir when he visited the country in 2015. Two arrest warrants [text, PDF; second...

A Chinese court has ordered a mental hospital to issue a public apology and pay compensation to a 38-year-old man after forcing him to undergo conversion therapy. The man was committed to the institution by his wife in 2015. He...

French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel was appointed as Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism on Monday to collect evidence concerning persons involved in Syrian war crimes over the last six years. Marchi-Uhel has experience in criminal law,...

Poland's special prosecutors have requested the US extradite a Minnesota man accused of Nazi war crimes. Michael Karkoc, 98, is a former commander of an SS-led Nazi unit responsible for burning Polish villages and killing civilians during World...

Armed groups have been committing war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) , according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailing violence in three central provinces between November 2014 and April...

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) , Maciej Szpunar, on Tuesday declared that EU member states were entitled to "prohibit and punish the illegal exercise of a transport activity such as UberPop without...

The Peru Congress on Monday unanimously voted to remove the Comptroller, Edgar Alarcon, from office. The vote to remove Alarcon was initiated over accusations that he gave public funds to the mother of his...