The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine released its tenth report on Monday, documenting the serious human rights abuses that persist in eastern Ukraine. The violations include "shelling, executions, arbitrary and illegal detentions,...

South Korea and China on Monday signed a bilateral free trade agreement that will eliminate most tariffs between the two countries over the next two decades. After approximately three years of negotiations, Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng and South...

Four former Serbian secret service agents pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Monday relating to the 1999 slaying of journalist Slavko Curuvija . Curuvija, an outspoken critic of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic , was shot...

Sohel Rana and 40 other people were charged with murder on Monday over the 2013 collapse of a garment factory that killed more than 1,100 people. Bangladesh authorities brought charges against Rana , the...

Egypt's National Council for Human Rights reported on Sunday that at least 2,600 people have been killed by violence in the 18 months following the military ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Head...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday decided not to get involved, for the time being, in a case regarding whether the public should have access to video footage...

Egyptian authorities on Saturday freed Egyptian-American prisoner Mohammed Soltan, who had been sentenced to life in prison and had been on a hunger strike for over a year. As a precondition to Soltan's release, he had to renounce his...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on Saturday called on several states to investigate allegations that members of their peacekeeping forces sent to the Central African Republic (CAR) have committed...

Judges of the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo issued verdicts in the Drenica I and Drenica II cases on Wednesday and sentenced 11 Kosovo Albanian men to prison. The charges included the...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday released a report arguing that strong encryption is elemental to basic human rights. The report hails encryption and anonymity as tools that...