Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Monday to investigate claims of torture and ill-treatment made by many of the 94 defendants in a trial on state security charges. While...
Independent experts within the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday urged governments around the world to take decisive steps to ensure and protect women's rights, and to "turn decades of...
The Arkansas legislature voted Wednesday to override Governor Mike Beebe's recent veto of the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act , which bans abortions "of an unborn human individual whose heartbeat has been detected ......
Germany's lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag , on Friday approved a bill to broaden copyright protections for online material, especially news articles. The new law would not charge royalties to search engines, including Google [official website; JURIST...
Three UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday urged the government of Zimbabwe to respect international human rights including privacy and freedom of association, in light of growing hostility toward civil society organizations. In the...
Advocates for same-sex marriage submitted briefs to the US Supreme Court Thursday in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry for the respondent couples, as well as for the City and County of San...
The Nigerian federal government this week was ordered to pay nearly US$240 million to the community of Odi, which was raided by the military in 1999. Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court ruled against the...
A UN independent expert Wednesday commended the reform that has been achieved so far in Myanmar while identifying additional human rights issues that still need to be addressed, particularly in the states...
The Kenyan government is being sued for police brutality in the violence that followed the country's 2007 presidential election . The suit has been brought against the government by the families of seven victims and eight wounded...
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered that the former chief-of-staff for deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak , Zakaria Azmi, be released from prison after he was granted a retrial in a corruption case. Azmi...
