Human rights organizations on Friday criticized the UN Human Rights Council for passing a resolution on Yemen that does not call for an independent international war crimes investigation. The Netherlands, backed by other Western countries, had...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Government of Somalia and encouraged the US to follow suit. The Convention on the Rights of the...

The interim government of Burkina Faso on Thursday apprehended the leader of the week-long military coup in September, announcing that he will face military justice. Gilbert Diendere was a general in the national army and the...

Officials from the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday that they are sending teams to review three Colorado prisons as part of President Barack Obama's ongoing efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Officials plan to...

Brazil's Federal Supreme Court ruled Friday that officials investigating corruption allegations at Petrobras , a state-run oil company, may question former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a witness. In ruling...

A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday granted certiorari in 13 cases, following its annual long conference Monday. In Bank Markazi v. Peterson the court will rule on a separation of powers...

The Croatian Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction and nine-year prison sentence of former prime minister Ivo Sanader , ordering a new trial. Sanader was convicted in March 2014 of corruption after allegedly embezzling ...

The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that EU nations can imprison migrants who attempt to reenter after having already been formally expelled from the nation. The case involved an Albanian migrant who...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday adopted a resolution encouraging the government of Sri Lanka to investigate violence toward human rights activists and minority groups, and create a scheme for reporting violations...