The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Wednesday struck down the amnesty law of 1993 , opening the way for prosecution of those associated with various war crimes and crimes against humanity during the...

Following Thursday's attack in Nice, French President François Hollande has chosen to extend for three months the state of emergency, which had been set to expire on July 26. Stating that "t is the whole of...

The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Thursday claiming that an estimated 9,300 people in Ukraine. including 2,000civilians, have been killed since the beginning of the separatist conflict in 2014. The...

In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) documented numerous human rights violations committed by Cameroon authorities in the country's crackdown on Boko Haram . In a military campaign that AI West and Central...

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) war crimes defendant Goran Hadzic , the former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina during the Croatian War of Independence , died Tuesday from...

The European Union's highest court released an advisory opinion Wednesday stating that Asma Bougnaoui, a French Muslim woman who lost her job in 2009 for wearing a head scarf, was unlawfully discriminated against. The opinion found that...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that Microsoft is not required to hand over customers' e-mails held overseas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) . The case was...

Hundreds of Egyptians have been abducted and tortured by Egypt's National Security Agency during a crackdown on political activists and protesters, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. Authorities have denied the accusations, but individuals have been prosecuted...

Israeli lawmakers on Monday passed a controversial law increasing regulation on Israeli human rights organizations. The law requires that organizations receiving more than 50 percent of their funding from foreign governments or political organizations disclose that they...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines Tuesday in a dispute with China over most of the South China Sea. The Philippines brought a case...