The Ukrainian Parliament approved a resolution Thursday that recognizes the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide. On May 18, 1944, under orders from Josef Stalin, more than 180,000 indigenous people were...
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum voiced support for the Yazidi community in Iraq on Thursday and said that the Islamic State (IS) militants committed genocide against the Yazidi people. The atrocities witnessed by the museum's...
The Constitutional Court of Colombia on Wednesday ruled that same-sex couples can legally adopt children. In a 6-2 decision, the court said that allowing same-sex couples to form a family upholds equality and...
The Egyptian Court of Cassation on Thursday postponed the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak regarding his complicity in the killings of hundreds of protestors in the 2011 demonstrations that ousted his regime. Judge...
The Nanping Municipal Intermediate People's Court of Fujian found in favor of two environmental groups on Thursday under a new environmental law. The court ordered defendants to restore destroyed vegetation and pay compensation for the damage that resulted...
There is evidence of recent unlawful police killings in Mexico said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The report suggests that police action which left eight civilians dead in the city of Apatzingán on January 6,...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday reported that police forces in Sri Lanka regularly torture and ill-treat criminal suspects in custody. HRW Asia director Brad Adams said, "he Sri Lankan police treat the use of torture...
The Indonesian province of Aceh has begun to enforce a law based on Sharia law which bans homosexual sex as well as adultery. Both locals and foreigners may now be punished with "100 strokes of the...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Thursday urged the Czech Republic to stop detaining migrants and refugees in "degrading" conditions. According to Zeid, the numerous migrants and refugees who have arrived...
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Thursday that converting cash into Bitcoin , a virtual currency that is used online and over the Internet, should be exempt from value added tax (VAT) [Swedish...
