US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin attempting to block the federal...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday welcomed last week's decision by Nepal's top refusing to grant amnesty for serious human rights violations committed during Nepal's civil war. Pillay declared...
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has signed into law a controversial plan to oversee the production and sale of marijuana in Uruguay. The Uruguayan Senate passed the measure to legalize the production, sale and...
US District Judge Carl Barbier for the US District Court Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that BP could not require businesses to provide proof their economic losses were directly caused by...
Radical cleric Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in a Jordanian court on Tuesday and challenged the court's authority to try him under the terms of his deportation from Britain...
Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday that it has filed a complaint against the UK government over concerns that the country's intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) unlawfully accessed AI's communications. Following disclosures...
Pakistan's military partially complied with a Supreme Court ruling on Saturday by producing before the court several prisoners out of the hundreds it has been secretly holding without charges. Human rights lawyers and relatives of the prisoners...
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Sunday stating that although there was an increase of reported acts of violence...
A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) issued a 60-page multimedia report on Friday that Syrian refugee children are suffering trauma from the Syrian Civil War , which has killed over 120,000 people. The report states...
Iraqi police forces on Friday alleged al Qaeda is responsible for the bodies of 18 men found who had been abducted and shot in the head. The victims were taken from their houses early...