A French court on Wednesday ruled to extradite Radomir Susnjar, who is suspected to have committed war crimes during Balkan conflict of the 1990s, to Sarajevo where he will face charges concerning his involvement. Susnjar, who was arrested in...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks on Wednesday called on Turkey to focus on human rights in the wake of their anti-terrorism security measures. The remarks were made at the end of...

An education reform group, Students for Education Reform Minnesota , initiated a lawsuit against the state Wednesday claiming state laws governing teacher tenure violates students' fundamental rights to an education. Minnesota law allows a teacher to obtain...

A 49-year old Liberian national and resident of East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Mohammed Jabbateh, was indicted in Philadelphia on Wednesday on two counts of immigration fraud and two counts of perjury for failing to disclose his crimes...

US Secretary of State John Kerry released the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015 on Wednesday, pointing to "a global governance crisis" in is prefatory statement. The secretary cited the "accelerating trend by both state and...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that obtaining phone location records without a warrant was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment . The FBI obtained cellphone locations of...

A Chicago task force assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday issued a report finding that racism has caused systematic failures within the city's police department. The report includes statistics illustrating how African Americans are...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed an executive order that creates a new anti-discrimination law intended to protect members of the LGBT community. Prior to signing the executive order, there was...

Panamanian prosecutors for organized crime raided the Panamanian office of international law firm Mossack Fonseca on Tuesday, seeking evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism in relation to the recent Panama Papers scandal. Mossack Fonseca has...

Georgia officials executed Kenneth Fults Tuesday after the US Supreme Court Tuesday denied the application for stay of execution. His attorney argued that the jury which sentenced Fults, an African American man,...