UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein appealed to the international community Tuesday to conduct an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen, after a...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Wednesday temporarily blocked the implementation and enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4) , which sought to ban so-called "sanctuary cities." Judge Orlando...
A Pakistan anti-terrorism court declared former president and army general Pervez Musharraf a fugitive from the law on Thursday concerning the assassination of former prime minister, and first female leader in the Muslim world, Benazir Bhutto...
Human rights groups on Monday filed suits against Jagath Jayasuriya, a former Sri Lanka army general, for alleged war crimes and human rights violations he committed during the 2009 civil war in Sri Lanka. The suits are based on his...
The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower federal court order invalidating two congressional districts. The US District Court for the Western District of Texas had found Districts 27 and 35...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined forces with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the National Immigration Law Center , and Jenner and Block, LLP on Thursday in filing a petition for mandamus and complaint for injunctive and...
At a Department of Justice (DOJ) briefing on Friday Attorney General Jeff Sessions condemned the "staggering number of leaks" of "sensitive government information" and threatened to investigate and prosecute anyone who carries out...
The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale issued a joint statement on Friday apologizing to former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr for violating his rights under the...
UN member states voted 122-1 Friday to adopt the first ever multilateral legally binding treaty on nuclear disarmaments. The one vote against the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came...
Japan's House of Councillors passed a law on Friday permitting 83-year-old Tsugu Akihito to become the first emperor since Emperor Kokaku in 1817 to abdicate his throne, clearing the way for his son, the...