A judge at Guantanamo Bay is considering whether to delay the trials of five men charged in the 9/11 terrorist attacks because lawyers in the case have lost data due to problems with a Pentagon computer system....
Venezuela's government officially withdrew from an international human rights court on Tuesday, fulfilling a plan by former president Hugo Chavez . Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted that the country...
A member of Quebec's separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) is proposing a bill that would ban government workers from wearing religious clothing on their heads, including turbans, hijabs and kippas. Bernard Drainville , the minister...
Myanmar's parliament will draft a bill that forms groups to monitor court proceedings, a lawmaker said Saturday. Thura Aung Ko , the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee chairman, said that the purpose of the court monitoring...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged the international community to help facilitate negotiations between warring parties in Syria. Although Pillay criticized global leaders for not acting sooner to stop the violent...
Fiji's draft constitution does not adequately protect basic human rights , Amnesty International (AI) said Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) also released a statement on Wednesday calling on Fiji to revise its draft constitution...
Romanian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Communist-era prison commander Alexander Visinescu with genocide. Visinescu, the former chief of the Ramnicu Sarat prison under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu faces genocide charges for beating and starving political prisoners ...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has secretly launched at least a dozen terrorism investigations into mosques since the 9/11 attacks , the Associated Press reported Wednesday. By designating mosques as "terrorism...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi was charged on Tuesday with murder, relating to the 2011 Libya conflict , a Libyan prosecutor said. Prosecutors...
At the beginning of a week-long visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay pledged to raise concerns with the government's human rights record, particularly with regard to alleged war...
