A civil lawsuit against the Dutch government filed by mothers and widows of men killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre opened in the Hague District Court on Monday. The Mothers of Srebrenica...

A UN expert on Friday urged the Kazakhstan government to end the mandatory registration of religious communities. Currently, all religious communities in Kazakhstan are required by law to obtain registration status to exercise collective religious functions. During...

The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged Somali authorities to place a moratorium on the death penalty. The UN recommended the moratorium citing its concern over...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit on Friday brought against officials of the Obama administration for the 2011 drone strikes that killed three US...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the US against resuming military assistance to Egypt until the country begins to make progress on developing basic freedoms or on its democratic transition. On Friday the group released a letter...

The Associated Press has discovered plans by the European Union to instate a war crimes tribunal to deal specifically with allegations focusing on offenses committed by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels during the 1998 war with...

French police on Friday arrested Radomir Susnjar , a Bosnian Serb paramilitary soldier suspected of killing 59 Muslim civilians during the Bosnian Civil War . Susnjar is suspected of involvement in the July 1992 killings...

Amnesty International (AI) announced on Tuesday the creation of a new global coalition that will work with world leaders to keep invasive surveillance systems and technologies out of the hands of dictators and oppressive regimes....

Turkey's Constitutional Court on Friday partially lifted the country's ban on Youtube , saying the blanket ban violated human rights. Access to the website was blocked after video of officials discussing an attack on...

The Egyptian government approved a new anti-terrorism law on Thursday in response to an attack on Cairo University . The new law is aimed at deterring the recent escalation of terrorist violence in Egypt during its transition...