Palestinian political parties Hamas and Fatah on Thursday announded a reconciliation deal in which Hamas has agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza to Fatah in Cairo. While the agreement has not yet...

Turkish prisons are committing torture and disappearing citizens, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. The report, entitled In Custody: Police Torture and Abductions in Turkey , alleges that even though Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

The Council of Europe published a letter Wednesday in which Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks asked the government of Italy to explain why the Italian navy dispatched ships to the coast of Libya. In...

The Supreme Court of India ruled Wednesday that sexual intercourse with a girl who is under the age of 18 is rape regardless of the marital status of the girl. Section 375 of the India Penal...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged Tuesday that Rwanda's military routinely tortures unlawfully detained individuals through various different methods. The report alleges that Rwandan judges and prosecutors have been ignoring complaints from both current and former detainees...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, denied certiorari to consider the last remaining conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee and former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, who was...

José Miguel Vivanco , director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, sent a letter to several heads of the Colombian government Sunday, urging them to implement legislative proposals of a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...

Canada reached a major settlement on Friday with indigenous victims of the so-called Sixties Scoop , agreeing to pay C$800 million ($635m; £488m) to some 20,000 victims, $50 million of which will be used for reconciliation initiatives....

The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a terminally ill individual's petition for assistance to die, upholding the Suicide Act 1961 , which makes it illegal to assist in suicide. Noel Conway, who suffers from...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday passed bill S-226 , the "Magnitsky Act," which would allow for the Canadian government to take "restrictive measures in respect of foreign...