Paris' chief prosecutor François Molins on Saturday reported three arrests connected to Friday's terrorist attacks. Organized into three teams, terrorists reportedly connected to the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) [PBS...
With a tremendous influx of refugees in the Greek islands of Chios, Kalymnos, Kos, Lesvos, Leros and Samos, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) aid capabilities have been stretched thin. Working through a four-day shipping...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement on Friday calling for an end to the political violence and killings currently afflicting Burundi. In the statement, the Secretary General expressed "grave concerns" regarding the...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday expressed concern over the "organized attack" on opposition politicians in Cambodia. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani highlighted that...
Rwanda's lower house of Parliament on Thursday voted to extend the term of President Paul Kagame beyond 2017, a move opposed by the UN and other aid providers. Already in his second term, Kagame may...
At a press conference on Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights shared concerns over the "rapidly worsening security and human rights situation in Burundi," noting that 198 people have...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on the European Union (EU) and Western Balkans states to focus on remedying what it characterizes as deplorable conditions for asylum-seekers in Europe. With hundreds of thousands of...
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two sets of cases, involving patent infringement damages and energy preemption, respectively. The first set, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer and Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse...
Five Ethiopian bloggers on Friday were acquitted of terrorism charges relating to publications on their website . The publications, critical of the government, landed nine bloggers in jail, and one charged in absentia, in April 2014, for...