The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court, alleging that Border Patrol and immigration officers are guilty of coercing hundreds, or possibly thousands of Mexican nationals...

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission on Wednesday lifted the country's ban against YouTube . The website has been banned since September, after an anti-Islam movie appeared on the site. The movie, titled Innocence of Muslims ,...

New York resident Sulejman Mujagic has been extradited to his native country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for war crimes committed in the 1990s, officials said Monday. His extradition is the result of charges for allegedly killing...

A Bahrain court on Monday issued sentences to three protesters for allegedly taking part in anti-government protests as well as attempting to kill a police officer. The crimes were committed during an attack on police in the...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida Manjoo on Thursday urged the government of Bangladesh to address the prevalent acts of violence against women occurring in the country. Manjoo noted that while...

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda said Thursday that Kenya must prove its ability to handle the case of President Uhuru Kenyatta before the ICC will...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at the opening of the spring session of the UN’s Human Rights Council on Monday spoke against continued war crimes and crimes against humanity occurring in Syria....

The House of Commons of the UK Parliament voted 366-161 on Tuesday to approve the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill . The legislation was introduced in January and will effectively extend the application...

A senior judge for the Judiciary of England and Wales on Friday partially upheld a request by British Foreign Secretary William Hague to withhold certain information from the investigation into the 2006 death...

The Afghanistan parliament on Saturday blocked legislation that would have worked to strengthen women's rights in the country. If passed, the legislation would have protected provisions of the 2009 Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW)...