Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday appealed last week's decision acquitting former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on one of 11 charges for...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the arrest and detention of Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights [text,...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday praised the work of human rights activists for the right of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people while calling for an end to discrimination based on sexual...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday permanently enjoined a Florida law that barred doctors from discussing the dangers of gun ownership with patients. Judge Marcia Cooke...

French authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested a suspected terrorist alleged to have ties to al-Qaeda . Little information has been revealed about the suspect except that he was born in Tunisia in 1977 and resided...

Google on Monday offered to settle antitrust claims by the European Competition Commission (ECC) . The company's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt , sent a letter to ECC Joaquin Almunia [official...

The UN on Monday released a report alleging that the Rwandan government has helped to create armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supplied them with weapons, armor...

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) announced Monday that it may shut down Apple operations in Italy for 30 days and fined the company up to 300,000 euros (USD $377,500)...

Amnesty International Moldova (AI) on Monday urged the Center for Human Rights of Moldova to assess the constitutionality of a new law that allows chemical castration of anyone found...

The Constitutional Court of Germany on Monday announced that it will hear a claim brought in opposition to the 500 billion euro (USD $632 billion) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) ...