The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Friday urged countries to increase efforts to search for disappeared persons. Chairman of the group Ariel Dulitzky , in addressing the 47 members of...

The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Friday handed down its first judgment, finding journalist Karma Khayat in contempt of court for not removing a broadcast made in 2012. The STL, set up to prosecute...

Justice June Ross of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on Friday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr could visit his family in Toronto for two weeks and do so without an electronic monitoring...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , who alleged that Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash...

The House of Councillors , Japan's upper house of parliament, on Saturday approved a measure that allows Japan's Self Defense Forces to deploy troops abroad for the first time since World War II. The legislation passed the lower...

The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday banned corporate entities from providing funding to political candidates in the future. The court found that the large role corporations played in campaign funding was...

Moroccan born Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who spent 13 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison, was released Thursday as part of the Obama Administration's effort to wind down and eventually close the detention center. The US...

Mexican authorities captured high-ranking drug cartel member Gildardo Lopez Astudillo Wednesday, alleging that he is connected to last year's disappearance of 43 college students in Guerrero. National Security Commissioner Renato Sales Heredia confirmed the arrest...

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a fine Thursday against Italy in the amount of €30 million for failing to recover millions of euros that were improperly granted to hundreds of...

The new Constitution of Nepal was approved by the Constituent Assembly of Nepal on Wednesday after years of debate. The original 2010 completion date was repeatedly delayed due to international and...