Amnesty International (AI) issued a press release Monday demanding the US close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, calling the prison's continued operation "a prime example of the USA's double standard on human rights." The report...

The European Commission released its semi-annual Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) report on Romania Wednesday, warning the nation to end political pressure on the judiciary amid continuing concerns over corruption. When Romania and Bulgaria joined...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay issued statements Tuesday urging Ukrainian protesters to use restraint and calling on both the government and protesters to work towards constructive...

The Supreme Court of Virginia on Tuesday declined to reconsider the court's 2013 overturning of a wrongful death verdict against the commonwealth stemming from the 2007 shooting ...

Egyptian voters on Thursday approved the new military-backed constitution, by a margin of over 90 percent, according to unofficial results released Thursday by individual election committees throughout the country. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, new constitution garnered [Ahram Online...

The trial of four Hezbollah members accused of perpetrating a terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others in 2005 began Thursday before the UN-backed...

The trial of four individuals accused of aiding the terrorists who perpetrated the September attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, commenced Wednesday. The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled Tuesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US...

The Islamabad Special Court on Thursday ordered the former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to appear at a hearing on January 16 despite his lawyers' position that he is too sick to attend. According to...

Three courts in Egypt sentenced 113 supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday. In one of the largest mass trials to date, 63...