Provincial police in eastern Afghanistan reported that at least five civilians were killed Friday night in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike near Jalalabad. NATO spokesman Lt. Col. William Griffin confirmed that Afghan and...
Sweden's Ombudsman for Children Fredrik Malmberg called for the country to ban infant male circumcision on Saturday, claiming the practice violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child . In...
Mohamed al-Maskati, head of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) , reported Sunday that a Bahrain court has sentenced 50 defendants to prison terms ranging between five and 15 years in prison, with 20...
Participants of the Sixth Asian and Pacific Population Conference (APPC) hosted by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) declared Sunday that gender equality and reproductive health are indispensable to...
The US House of Representatives Friday voted 230 to 189 to approve the necessary stop gap funding for federal agencies, but also included terms which would strip funding from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on business leaders to work with the US to pursue and promote sustainable development worldwide in a statement made on Friday at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit ...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted within its authority to work with six states and Washington, DC, in promulgating the Final...
Bahrain security forces are detaining children without cause and "subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture," according to a report released Sunday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . Bahrain is specifically accused [press...
A judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Friday ordered the review of FISC opinions to identify which are subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) disclosure. The order comes in...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated in a UN meeting on Friday that an expert team's report will likely confirm the use of chemical weapons in the August 21 attack on Damascus.The attack , which has been...
