Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted of all charges on Thursday, the court finding his anti-Islam statements were not hate speech or discriminatory. Wilders has made several "anti-Islam" comments as...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday that he will seek an investigation into the Ivory Coast on Thursday. Last week, Ocampo issued a public...
Ukrainian opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday, alleging violations of the European Convention of Human...
A UN official on Tuesday denounced continued human rights abuses against civilians in the South Kordofan region of the Sudan . The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos ...
Bahrain's Lower National Safety Court sentenced 20 activists on Wednesdayeight to life in prisonfor anti-government protests conducted earlier this year. The convicted were charged with "plotting to topple the leadership of the Kingdom of Bahrain,"...
Federal prosecutors in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dropped all charges against al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in a filing made Friday. The judge...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Friday issued a public notice for victims of violence in the Ivory Coast to give statements and advise if the ICC should proceed with a...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed the "Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity" resolution with a vote of 23-19 and 3 abstentions on Friday. The resolution is the first to...
The governments of Mexico and several other countries, along with the Anti-Defamation League filed amicus briefs on Thursday in support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) class action lawsuit against Georgia's new...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reversed the lower court in Smith v. Bayer Corp. , allowing a class action lawsuit against the company to proceed. The Court held that...
