UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged the government of Honduras to take measures to address the violence against human rights defenders. The call came amid...
Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja , was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison for tearing up a picture of the country's king, according to her lawyer. Mohammed al-Jishi...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for the implementation of measures to allow women greater access to justice systems. In his statement to leaders of around 80 nations during the High-Level Meeting of the General...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled Monday that Florida does not have to provide 96 hours of early voting for the November elections. Under a 2004 version...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai on Wednesday condemned the recent violence that erupted after a US citizen released an anti-Islam film. Kiai stated...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday granted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic 300 hours to present evidence in his defense. Karadzic had...
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Monday announced that it has implemented measures to monitor detention centers at federal and regional levels to ensure human rights protection according to the country's constitution. The EHRC will dispatch...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that England and Wales' indeterminate sentences for protection of the public (IPP) without the means for inmates to prove their rehabilitation are arbitrary and unlawful. The...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged Italy to change its discriminatory policies against the country's Roma . In its report , AI revealed that in the 10 months after the "Nomad Emergency"...
The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Shamsul Bari on Wednesday welcomed the elections of the new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and the new Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Sheikh...
