Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the ambassadors of the fourteen UN Security Council members who supported a resolution condemning Israel's settlement in Palestine to rebuke them for the vote. Following the passage...

On Friday the United Nations Security Council failed to pass a resolution, which would have imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan with a vote of 7-0 with 8 abstentions. The resolution would have instituted an...

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday to establish an independent panel to investigation possible war crimes in Syria. The resolution, approved by a vote of 105 to 15 against, with 52 abstentions, will establish the International,...

About 71 percent of human trafficking victims are female and one-third are children, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report released Wednesday. Though many are victims of sexual exploitation and forced labor,...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that "eneral and indiscriminate retention" of e-mails and other electronic communications by governments is illegal, in a decision that many believe could create an opportunity for challenges to the...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a ban on offshore drilling in almost 120 million acres of federally owned Arctic and Atlantic waters. As a preemptive opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, the goal of the...

Police killings in India continue to go unpunished, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Monday. Citing India's National Crime Records Bureau , the report states that 591 people died in police custody in the...

Christine Lagarde, current head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , was found negligent by a special French court Monday in her handling of a long-running fraud case involving a USD $400 million payment to French businessman and Nicolas...

Apple on Monday launched a legal challenge to a $14 billion tax penalty that the EU has levied against the company. The EU claimed in August that Apple took advantage of illegal state aid from Ireland, where Apple...

An Iraqi militia, backed by the government, executed four men suspected of having ties to the Islamic State (IS), Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Sunday. Because the men were never tried, HRW claims their executions constitute...