UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Monday, gave the opening statement at the 30th session of the Human Rights Council in which he addressed, among other pressing human rights...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Saturday accepted the resignation of his prime minister and and his cabinet. The resignation comes after former Agriculture Minister was detained on Monday, after an investigation headed...

The president of Yemen on Sunday backed out of talks arranged by the United Nations (UN) with Shiite rebels. It was announced by his office that there would be no talks until the rebels accept...

Germany announced, on Sunday, that it is invoking temporary border controls at the nation's southern border with Austria, after thousands of immigrants entered the country in recent days. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière announced at a new...

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Friday was sentenced by a Venezuelan court to over 13 years in prison for inciting violence in nationwide protests in 2014. Lopez, a former Caracas borough...

An Indian anti-terror court on Friday convicted 12 men of various charges, including murder, in connection with the near simultaneous bombings of seven trains in Mumbai in 2006. The men, ranging in age from...

Two independent human rights experts from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday offered support for recent measures by India and China to limit the use of...

The Lyon Appeals Court in France upheld a 2012 ruling on Thursday in which the agricultural company Monsanto was found guilty of chemical poisoning of French farmer Paul Francois. Francois said he suffered various neurological problems...

The Office of the Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court (ICC) unsealed arrest warrants Thursday for Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett, two Kenyans charged with interfering with the prosecution of the Kenya Situation. As...

UN human rights experts on Wednesday welcomed a report pertaining to the enforced disappearance, torture and executions of students from Ayotzinapa in the Mexican state last year. Last week the Office of the High Commissioner for...