The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday called on new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate reports of both military abuses and crimes committed by the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Friday upheld a French court's decision allowing Vincent Lambert the right to die, stating it did not violate article 2 of European Convention on Human...

The UN torture prevention body on Wednesday urged the Philippines to tackle urgent prison overcrowding issues and improve independent monitoring of detention facilities. During a visit by the six-member delegation, the Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT)...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday that in light of allegations of sexual abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) by foreign troops not under UN control, an External Independent Review will be set up to examine...

Colombia's Congress voted on Wednesday to limit presidents to a single term, a measure backed by President Juan Manuel Santos . The presidential term limit undoes a law passed by Santos' predecessor and rival, Alvaro Uribe,...

A top EU legal adviser stated on Thursday that unemployed EU migrants are not automatically entitled to social benefits during their first three months in a different EU country. The recommendation came from the advocate general of the...

Judge Anwar Gabri of the Egyptian Court of Cassation ordered a retrial on Thursday for former president Hosni Mubarak regarding his complicity in the killings of hundreds of protestors in the 2011 demonstrations...

Interpol on Wednesday issued "wanted person alerts" for six men having ties to the ongoing FIFA scandal on charges including racketeering, money laundering and corruption. The alerts are a notice and warning that the men...

Around 8,000 Nigerian civilians have been killed since 2011 as a result of abuses by military forces, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. The report attributes civilian deaths to torture, starvation, suffocation and executions by military forces...

Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community continue to face discrimination and human rights abuses, according to a report from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released...