The UK Home Office announced on Sunday that prosecutors will be encouraged to use tougher sentences against hate crimes in response to the nation's increasingly hostile environment since the EU referendum. Since the middle of June over 6,000...

UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto stated on Sunday that the recent suicide bombings in Kabul amounted to a war crime. On Saturday two suicide bombers targeted Shiite Hazaras who were holding a peaceful demonstration to...

Alberto Fujimori , Peru's former leader who was jailed in 2007, submitted another request for a presidential pardon on Saturday, just five days before President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes office. Fujimori is serving a...

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon released a statement on Friday condemning the recent fighting in Kidal, Mali . The fighting arose at the end of last week between the Platform Movement and the...

According to a 56-page report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International , Ukrainian government officials and Russia-backed separatists in the Ukraine have subjected citizen to "prolonged, arbitrary detention," torture, or other forms of inhumane...

Today the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde was ordered by a French court to face criminal trial for her negligence in facilitating a $400 million government payout to...

On Thursday Indonesian officials rejected the findings of the international people's tribunal formed at the Hague that Indonesia had committed crimes against humanity in killing the country's communist party members and followers in the 1960s. The tribunal...

Pakistani Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Thursday announced his country's intention to ask the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to send a fact-finding mission to Kashmir [JURIST news...

A Hong Kong court on Thursday found three leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests guilty on charges related to their occupation of a government building. Joshua Wong and Alex Chow, prominent leaders of the Umbrella Revolution , were convicted...

A Bangladeshi court on Monday officially indicted 41 people with murder stemming from a 2013 garment factory collapse which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100 people. Building owner Rohel Sana and his parents were...