The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday granted Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf three additional weeks to urge Switzerland to reopen an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari . Ashraf appeared in court on...
A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced two local UN staff members to imprisonment for their alleged involvement in sectarian violence that gripped the western Rakhine state this past spring. One of the staff members worked for ...
The United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) will cease its work on Sunday at midnight, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmund Mulet announced a press briefing on Thursday. According to Mulet, the...
Myanmar president Thein Sein on Tuesday granted amnesty to 37 male prisoners and nine female prisoners on humanitarian grounds. Among those released are at least 25 political prisoners , according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners...
Egypt's Criminal Court in Cairo issued a decision on Monday voiding a ban on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that has been in place since 1954. In considering a case...
Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez argued Thursday that Illinois' ban on same-sex marriage contravenes the state's constitution. Her response , filed on behalf of Cook County Clerk David Orr ,...
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday swore in seven members of a truth commission who will investigate alleged human rights violations that occurred under the country's military dictatorship. On the same...
Mass arrests and incommunicado detentions persist at Camp Honor, a prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad that the Iraqi government promised to close last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) , reported Tuesday. According to HRW, the...
Recent revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have demonstrated the unique opportunities that social media has created for human rights activists, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released on Friday. However, repressive governments...
Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa announced on Sunday that the three-month state of emergency put in place in mid-March in response to growing unrest, will be lifted two weeks...
