The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday accused governmental surveillance centers of invasion of privacy and reliance on racial and religious profiling in their Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and urged the centers to adopt...

Egypt's state-run National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Monday publicly condemned recent violent attacks against the nation's Coptic Christians. Islamist extremists are believed to be behind attacks such as the burning of churches and...

Sri Lanka prosecutors on Monday brought criminal corruption charges against former chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake . The nation's anti-graft commission accused Bandaranayake of allegedly failing to disclose empty bank accounts during a required declaration of assets while...

The office of interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour announced Thursday that the government is formally extending Egypt's state of emergency for two months due to security concerns. The interim government has sent military troops,...

The Kentucky Equality Federation has filed a lawsuit to overturn Kentucky's amendment banning same-sex marriage . The constitutional amendment, passed in 2004 with approval of 75 percent of voters, allows...

The European Commission on Monday instructed Samsung Electronics to offer more concessions in their proposal to settle antitrust charges. Samsung has been charged with breaching the EU's antitrust rules by engaging in patent...

Former Israeli president Moshe Katzav was allowed to leave the prison for 24-hours on Monday, marking his first furlough since his 2011 conviction for the rape of female employees in the 1990s. Katzav, who...

The EU General Court on Friday annulled sanctions imposed upon eight Iranian banks and companies, finding them unjustified. The 28-nation group has frozen assets and banned travel since 2010 for Iranian citizens thought to...

Two independent UN human rights experts on Wednesday stressed the UK's obligation to ensure that investigative journalists are allowed protection from intimidation and punishment. Wednesday's statement comes as a reaction to the recent detention of...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld California's law prohibiting licensed therapists from counseling minors with the intent to convert their sexual orientation from gay to straight....