UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria is a war crime . According to Ban, UN teams have witnessed horrifying scenes of "the elderly and children, men and women,...
Tamara Fields, the widow of a defense contractor killed in an Islamic State (IS) terrorist attack in November, filed suit Wednesday against social media website Twitter alleging the company knowingly permitted IS to use their network to spread...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday encouraged the Yemen government to reconsider its decision to expel the country's human rights representative. The government claimed that George Abu al-Zulof, the...
Alabama chief justice Roy Moore on Wednesday instructed state judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses . The Alabama Supreme Court had ruled in March that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is legal, and Moore's...
Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said Wednesday. These two are among the 17 detainees scheduled for release this month . The men...
The Supreme Court of India upheld a temporary ban on diesel vehicles in New Delhi on Tuesday in an effort to reduce air pollution. Diesel vehicles will be forced to take alternative routes rather than simply traveling through the city....
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that the civilian death toll in Yemen has reached nearly 2,800 over nine months of fighting. The UN reported that the number of...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) formally closed Thursday after issuing 45 judgments. The ICTR, established in 1994, was the first international tribunal to deliver verdicts against those guilty of committing genocide. Within...
The first of 17 detainees are scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison next week, said a senior US official on Monday. There will be 90 detainees remaining, 59 of whom are ineligible to be transferred...
Hundreds gathered in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city Friday to protest , the day after a Thai court sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death for the 2014 murders of two British tourists. The verdict resulted from a trial...
