Chief Human Rights Officer Norah Niland of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Tuesday called on the Afghan government to do more to protect human rights and see that human rights violators are brought to justice....

Rights groups Tuesday marked the anniversary of a March 2003 crackdown on dissidents in Cuba by calling for the release of political prisoners detained during that round-up. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) , Human Rights First...

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers sharply criticized Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in a Monday address to the Indian Supreme Court and its bar, saying that Musharraf's ouster...

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Monday upheld a July 2007 decision refusing to grant medical release to jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour . The court reportedly held that Nour, who suffers from heart...

The violence that wracked Kenya after the nation's disputed 2007 presidential election was carefully organized by "local leaders, politicians, and businessmen from all sides," according to a report released Monday by Human Rights...

US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the US District Court of Arizona to charges including extortion, money laundering, and wire fraud in connection with a complex land scheme....

Italian prosecutors have filed an appeal of a Rome court's dismissal of a criminal case against US Army Spc. Mario Lozano for the alleged 2005 murder of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari [BBC profile; JURIST...

The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in consolidated cases challenging California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage . In 2006, the state Attorney General requested that the Court review an...

Former Russian Atomic Minister Yevgeny Adamov was found guilty in Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court Tuesday of fraud and abuse of office for his involvement in a corruption scheme which misappropriated millions of dollars of...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton Tuesday threatened to hold a reporter in contempt of court if she continues to violate an August 2007 order to testify about government sources who provided five reporters...