UN Special Rapporteur on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Marzuki Darusman is asking the UN to provide North Korea with notice that Kim Jong Un may be investigated for crimes against humanity. In a report...
Colombia's Constitutional Court on Monday revoked the mining licenses of all 347 private mining companies that had previously been granted approval to develop the ecologically endangered Colombian Andes. The resolution contradicts part of the National...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Indonesian Parliament to reject proposed amendments to its law on the "eradication of terrorism" . HRW asserts that the proposed amendments are too vague...
The Syrian government is systematically exterminating detainees, the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Monday. The report details that thousands of detainees held by the Syrian government have been...
Chinese courts convicted 14 government officials and company executives on Wednesday due to their involvement in a 2014 factory explosion that killed 146 workers because of inappropriately stored chemicals. The sentences , for the crime of causing a major...
The German Cabinet approved new asylum laws on Wednesday in response to the hundreds of thousands of refugees that have entered the country since the beginning of 2015. The bill will speed up asylum...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) began its review the San Francisco police department on Monday. The review was initiated in the aftermath of the filmed shooting of Mario Woods, an African American male,...
Judges for the International Criminal Court (ICC) have approved an investigation into the 2008 Georgia/Russia conflict. Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda commented that the delay in ICC proceedings was prompted by independent investigations conducted by the...
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan seeking the replacement of lead water pipes in the city of Flint. The...
Former Bangladesh prime minster Khaleda Zia was ordered to appear in court following charges of sedition on Monday. The suit against Zia was filed by Momtaz Uddin Ahmad Mehdi, a lawyer with the Bangladesh Supreme Court...
