Police in Bosnia and Serbia, as part of a joint investigation and operation, arrested 15 individuals Friday accused of perpetrating the massacre of 19 unarmed men during the height of the Balkan conflict. The men are accused ...

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda dropped the charges of murder, rape, persecution, deportation and other inhumane acts against Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta on Friday. This action comes after an...

Police in the Philippines are committing torture with impunity, Amnesty International (AI) reported Thursday. Although allegations of torture, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment within the police force have increased year after year, AI says...

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered France to compensate nine Somalis, most of whom are convicted pirates, for their arrest in 2008. After hijacking a French luxury...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International on Wednesday issued a joint statement urging Afghanistan's foreign donors to support human rights progress within the country. The statement, in conjunction with recent letters to foreign...

A UN rights expert on Wednesday called for a legally binding agreement at the national level in order to fight violence against women in member states and hold violators accountable. Special Rapporteur on violence against women Rashida...

An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for an August 2013 attack on a police station in the governate of Giza, widely known as the "Kerdasa massacre." This...

A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Tuesday found British journalist David Bergman guilty of contempt for challenging the official death toll of Bangladesh's 1971 independence war with Pakistan. Bergman wrote in a 2011 blog...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday denied both the prosecution's request for further adjournment and the defense's request to terminate the proceedings in the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta[ICC...

Egypt's prosecutor general stated Tuesday that he will appeal the Egyptian court's Saturday decision that dropped charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dismissed the case . Mubarak, his former security chief...