The National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria approved amendments to the Constitution on Wednesday to reform the judicial system. At a third reading of the proposed amendments, 189 legislators voted in favour,...
The European Commission on Tuesday reached an agreement on data protection regulations concerning how digital information is to be collected and managed across the EU. The EU Data Protection Reform was initiated in 2012...
Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican human rights activist, on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of Jamaica's Offences Against the Person Act of 1864 , which criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between men, in the Supreme Court of Jamaica ....
Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina was formally charged by prosecutors on Wednesday following the investigation into the corruption scandal that led to his resignation. Prosecutor Francisco Sandoval said that Pérez Molina is suspected of illicit association, customs...
Amnesty International (AI) said Tuesday that the Islamic State (IS) is in possession of a "large and lethal" arsenal due to decades of reckless arms trading and the poorly regulated international flow of weapons into Iraq....
Prosecutor Col. Sita Sangare, Burkina Faso's director of military justice, on Sunday announced charges filed last week against General Gilbert Diendere for complicity in the assassination of former president and revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara in 1987. Diendere, the...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslav (ICTY) publicly announced on Tuesday confidential charges and arrest warrants for contempt of court against three people involved in the Vojislav Šešelj trial ....
The Constitutional Court of Spain on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a resolution by the Parliament of Catalonia that proposed a plan for the region's independence from Spain by 2017. The resolution...
A regional court in Hungary decided on Thursday to deport two British citizens back to the UK pursuant to an arrest warrant for the men's unauthorized departure. Simon Keeler and Trevor Brooks, also known as Abu...
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, a delegation of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced Wednesday that Sri Lanka has an opportunity to properly address the rights...
