The Sri Lankan Special Envoy of the President on Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe, announced on Thursday the Cabinet of Ministers has adopted the National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights. The five-year plan fulfills Sri...

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) has charged Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, leader of Jamaat e Islami (JI) , with war crimes allegedly stemming from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan. Bangladesh established...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Friday filed a petition for certiorari asking the US Supreme Court to review the recent Fourth Circuit ruling dismissing Virginia's challenge of the Patient Protection...

Lithuania must reopen the investigation into secret CIA prisons in light of new evidence, Amnesty International (AI) insisted Thursday. AI cited evidence of rendition flights of Abu Zubaydah [NYT profile; JURIST news...

The upper house of the Kazakhstani parliament on Thursday passed a controversial bill dissolving religious organizations and requiring re-registration, drawing criticism from international observers. Recently, Kazakhstani lawmakers have been unsettled by religious extremists plotting acts...

The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia approved a restitution law that provides for compensation or the return of property confiscated by communist authorities following World War II. The bill, passed by an overwhelming majority [AP...

The abuse of Irish children by members of the clergy, revealed by four state-sponsored reports, included acts that amounted to torture , Amnesty International said Monday. Aimed at why the abuse occurred, the report, titled In...

An EU judge on Thursday placed senior Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj under house arrest for one month while awaiting trial on charges of war crimes stemming from the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

A French court in Meaux on Thursday fined two Muslim women for violating the controversial French law that bans wearing full-face veils in public, including the Islamic burqa and niqab [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...

Violent crime in the US dropped for the fourth consecutive year, the FBI announced on Monday. The estimates are part of the annual figures prepared as part of the Bureau's Crime in the United States...