Rwanda's Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda, who was charged under the country's anti-genocide ideology laws. Ntaganda, a former leader of the country's PS-Imberakuri party, was arrested in July...
Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) urged Azerbaijani authorities on Tuesday to conduct an investigation into the violent attack by police and security personnel against journalist...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Tuesday for the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to cease the recent violence which has led to civilian casualties on both sides. Pillay...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday called for urgent national and international action to bring an end to the political instability and continuing human rights violations in Mali. According to Pillay,...
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell on Tuesday proposed amendments to Virginia's voter ID legislation as passed by the General Assembly during the 2012 session. McDonnell's amendments include extending the time a voter would have...
The Chilean House of Deputies passed an anti-discrimination law on Wednesday in response to the killing of a 24-year-old gay man, Daniel Zamudio, by a group of alleged neo-Nazis in Santiago,...
Roma , Jews and Ukrainians in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) face exclusion from politics and public institutions, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The report identified the 1995 Bosnian Constitution as...
An Oklahoma County judge struck down on Wednesday a state law requiring doctors to perform an ultrasound and describe a woman's fetus to her before she undergoes an abortion . The...
The Obama administration on Monday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an expedited en banc review of two test cases on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted on Friday in favor of a resolution condemning the violence in Syria and extending the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry. The 47-member panel voted 41-3 for...
