Syrian government forces committed war crimes when they killed at least 95 civilians and destroyed hundreds of houses during a two-week offensive in the province of Idlib during ceasefire negotiations, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday....
A blind Chinese legal activist who sought sought safety from local officials by holing up in the US Embassy in Beijing emerged on Wednesday after six days of self-confinement. The activist, Chen Guangcheng , was...
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma on Monday ruled that granting "personhood" rights to human embryos is unconstitutional, thus derailing a proposed ballot initiative to amend the state's constitution by defining a fertilized egg as...
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies on Monday approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the...
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a joint public statement Monday urging the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to stop its recent crackdown on political activists by ending arrests and releasing those in...
The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) on Saturday drafted proposed amendments to the country's electoral law in an effort to prevent future election fraud. According to IEC spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor, about...
Federal Judge Denise Cote on Wednesday dismissed a securities lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and 41 other defendants claiming that the banks helped mislead investors in the $12.2 billion stock offering by...
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Tuesday approved the extradition of a Dutch-Pakistani man suspected of preparing terrorist attacks on an American military base in Afghanistan in 2010. The suspect, known under Dutch...
Statistics Canada reported Thursday that both the number and rate of police-reported hate crimes declined in 2010 by 18 percent from the previous year . While the report made clear that "police-reported data likely undercount...
A civil rights activist on Monday filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to challenge the state's "No Duty to Retreat" law , a piece of legislation that he believes...
