Six accused Somali pirates went on trial in a Paris court Tuesday for taking 30 crew members hostage in 2008 on the ship Le Ponant in the Gulf of Aden. The men could face life in prison ...
A Guatemalan judge ruled Monday that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt will have a second genocide trial for ordering a 1982 massacre which killed 201 people. Judge Carol Patricia Flores found enough evidence linking Rios Montt to...
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law on Thursday a bill outlawing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking , making Vermont the first US state to ban the controversial technique used to extract natural...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday denied petitions by book publishers and Apple to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging that...
UN experts and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday urged an end to the threats and killings of human rights advocates and journalists in Mexico. The UN and IACHR called on the...
A Pakistani court convicted three widows and two daughters of Osama Bin Laden for illegally entering and residing in the country. The court ordered these five women, who were arrested on March 3, to...
Lawyers for Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and members of the Bahrain opposition appealed a conviction on Monday for anti-state charges to the Court of Cassation. Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a military court and is...
Israel announced Monday that the country will sever ties to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after it commenced an international investigation into Israeli settlements in the West Bank. A spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign...
Human rights groups commenced legal action on Monday urging South African courts to prosecute citizens of Zimbabwe for crimes against humanity. Rights group claim that South Africa has an obligation under international law to bring justice to...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency that landowners can bring a suit directly against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency's order...
