The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Moldova violated the rights to peaceful assembly and to be free from discrimination by banning gay groups from protesting in front of the country’s parliament. In 2005, Genderdoc-M applied for a peaceful protest outside the parliament to encourage the government to adopt laws that would [...]

Bolivian authorities on Monday arrested a former chief of the country’s armed forces on corruption charges. Prosecutor Harry Suaznabar charged General Alvin Kippes with illicit enrichment, dereliction of duty and abuse of influence, all punishable under the country’s penal code. Kippes will be held in detention due to risks of information leaks and obstructing the [...]

A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced the first suspect in the 2007 post-election violence to life imprisonment. Justice Roselyn Wendoh convicted Paul Ruto, who is not related to William Ruto , for the murder of Kimani Thiongo. Tuesday’s conviction marked the beginning of trialsconcerning the country’s 2007 post-election violence. Four of the six Kenyan leaders [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged Myanmar to ensure the safety of communities in the Arakan State. According to HRW, the violence between Arakan Buddhists and ethnic Rohingya Muslims creates a safety risk for the surrounding community leaving an unknown number dead. The violence began when earlier this month Arakan Buddhists attacked a bus [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday found former Pakistan ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani guilty of authoring the secret memo that implied Pakistani politicians were collaborating with US politicians. The memo was sent to US Admiral Mike Mullen in May of last year after Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces . [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday that it will postpone the confirmation of charges hearing for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo after his defense team requested more time. No new hearing date was set. Last week Gbagbo’s lawyers asked the ICC to postpone the hearing so that they could have more time to [...]

Amnesty International (AI) called on Egypt Monday to investigate attacks on women protesters after a group of activists were violently assaulted last week. AI reported that a protest against sexual harassment turned violent on Friday when a large group of men moved in and began groping and punching women in the crowd. Men involved in [...]

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled on Monday that HTC could not use five patents that it obtained from Google last August in its case against Apple . Apple had argued that HTC did not obtain all necessary rights to the intellectual property from Google. The patents were transferred from Google to HTC to [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a new report on Monday detailing the violations committed against children in conflict zones. The report discussed each conflict zone, including Afghanistan , Central African Republic , Chad , Sudan , South Sudan , Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria , and the situation of children in each country. The [...]

Bahraini authorities have released an 11-year-old detainee who was imprisoned for nearly a month, his lawyer told reporters on Tuesday. Ali Hasan Alqudaihi was arrested on May 14 for allegedly attending an illegal gathering . The boy was accused of deliberately blocking traffic with several other individuals. The Bahrain Center For Human Rights (BCHR) called [...]