The Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld the death sentence of a former opposition politician on Tuesday for allegedly committing war crimes during the 1971 war of independence. Mir Quasem Ali, who is accused of murder and...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged the African Union to establish a hybrid court to prosecute members of the South Sudan government for war crimes committed in the Western Equatoria region. HRW said that there...

Kuwait's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the four-year jail sentence against an activist found guilty of insulting judges on Twitter. Ahmad Fadhel was convicted for writing comments considered offensive to a number of judges in Kuwait. Three...

Chinese lawyer and professor, Chen Taihe, fled his country and arrived in San Leandro, California, the Dui Hua Foundation said Monday. Chen was detained last July as part of a crackdown on rights lawyers that had...

Iran billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death on Sunday after being found guilty on charges of fraud involving an oil fund, a judicial official stated. Zanjani, a 42-year-old oil tycoon who currently is one of Iran's richest...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday called on the parties involved in the Western Sahara conflict to end the "unacceptable" plight of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria. After meeting with refugees and...

The head of the US National Transportation Safety Board , Chris Hart, stated on Friday that airlines around the world are not acting quickly enough to address safety standards in the wake of the MH-370 disappearance. The...

The ceasefire between the Syrian government and rebels seeking to overthrow president Bashar al-Assad survived its first week on Saturday, and the nation experienced a marked drop in violence. The five-year civil war has killed...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a report on Friday recommending increased measures to be taken for all countries involved in the rise of allegations against UN peacekeepers of sexual abuse and exploitation. The report documents a...

A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on the US to increase its efforts to address the issue of lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan. The UN experts acknowledged the gravity of the situation in...