A South Korean court sentenced billionaire head of Samsung Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail for bribery on Friday. The Seoul Central District Court found that Lee paid former president...

Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra failed to appear in court to hear the verdict in her trial Friday, amid reports that she had fled the country to Dubai . Yingluck was facing corruption charges involving mismanagement...

A nine-judge panel of the Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that privacy is a "constitutionally protected value." The ruling could have drastic consequences for the government—particularly the country's biometric identification program, Aadhaar ....

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) requested that the US government, high-level politicians and public officials "unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the...

The UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) published a report on Tuesday urging the Iraqi government to ensure the rights of those individuals sexually victimized by Islamic State (IS) forces. According to the report, thousands...

Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong confessed at a trial on Tuesday to attempting to overthrow the Chinese government. Jiang has been in custody since November of last year. At the trial, he stated that Western laws led...

The Supreme Court of India ruled Tuesday that Islam's instant divorce law, which allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying the word "talaq" three times, was unconstitutional. The case was heard by five judges...

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a special report on Sunday detailing the human rights violations committed during attacks on the Mirza Olang village earlier this month. During the three-day event, Taliban and local...

A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced 10 individuals to death for plotting to bomb a rally held by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000. According to prosecutors, members of the Harkatul Jihad-al-Islami group planted two bombs...

Chile's Constitutional Court on Monday approved legislation that would legalize abortion in certain circumstances. The bill, approved by the Chilean Congress earlier this month, would allow abortions in instances of...