In an opinion issued on Friday, the Venice Commission announced that it believes Poland's current surveillance powers are too broad and need to be checked. The opinion focuses on sections 19 and 20c of the Police Act...

South African President Jacob Zuma, along with the state prosecutor, began an appeal on Friday of a ruling reinstating 783 corruption charges against him. The charges were initially dropped by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) ...

Independent experts for the UN determined Thursday that an Irish woman was "subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," when seeking an abortion. The woman, going by "AM," discovered her fetus suffered from fatal congenital defects...

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) stated on Thursday that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against anyone in MI6 for its involvement in the movement and alleged ill treatment of Abdel Hakim Belhadj ,...

Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Sabrina de Sousa will be extradited to Italy to serve a four-year prison sentence following a ruling by Portugal's Constitutional Court on Wednesday. De Sousa filed an appeal [JURIST...

Crimes against humanity , including enslavement, imprisonment, torture, rape and murder have been widespread in Eritrea, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea said in a report Wednesday. The commission has been...

The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that non-EU immigrants who illegally enter the Schengen area across an internal border should not be jailed solely on that basis. They can, however, be returned...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by Ecuador over an arbitration award to Chevron Corp . In 2011 Chevron was issued...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein urged the Iraqi government to "take immediate measures to ensure that" those fleeing the city of Fallujah are "treated in strict accordance with international human rights...

Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan that would provide all citizens with a guaranteed basic income. The proposal called for all adults to be paid an unconditional monthly income, regardless of need. Many of those who supported the proposal...