Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as South Africa's president in a parliamentary vote on Thursday after former president Jacob Zuma resigned, ending his nine year presidency, in the face of a pending no-confidence vote. Ramaphosa is expected...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday detailing flaws in Germany's Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks. . The law, which went into effect at the beginning of the...

A group of UN experts urged the US government Wednesday to respect the rights of human defenders after concerns involving Maru Mora Villalpando, a Mexican immigrant activist who campaigns to protect migrants' rights. Villalpando, co-founder of a group...

The UN International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and the Guatemala Special Prosecutor for Impunity , a division of Guatemala's public ministry, on Tuesday arrested former president Álvaro Colom and 10 former cabinet members on corruption and...

The Dutch senate on Tuesday narrowly approved legislation revising organ donor registration to make automatic registration for organ donor status the default. Under the bill, people would have to opt-out if they...

The Israeli police force said Monday that they have enough evidence to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who has allegedly accepted bribes in two separate cases and acted against the interests of the...

Two UN rights experts expressed serious concern on Tuesday regarding the arrest and detention of Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl who became famous for slapping an Israeli soldier during a physical confrontation. UN Special Rapporteur on the...

A new report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) on Monday reveals that 11 of the 31 chief ministers of the various states and union territories of India, representing...

Four survivors of a church massacre that occurred during the Liberian civil war filed a civil suit in US court Monday against the commander of the armed forces allegedly responsible for the massacre. The suit, brought in the...

An associate of South Korea's impeached former president Park Geun-hye's, Choi Soon-sil, was sentenced to 20 years and fined 18 billion won (USD $17 million) for abuse of power and bribery, among other crimes. The sentence was handed...