An independent UN human rights expert on Thursday condemned Israel's dismissal of a civil suit brought by the family of an American peace activist. UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Richard Falk criticized the...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged authorities in the former Yugoslavia to investigate the enforced disappearances of 14,000 people who are still unaccounted for since the civil war in the 1990s. The report ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held a hearing Tuesday on the appeal of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . The hearing comes just one day before a...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the international community to prevent the illegal trade of weapons , which are responsible for killing more than 500,000 people every year. The Program of Action adopted by...
A UN rights expert on Saturday urged an independent investigation into sectarian violence taking place in the Myanmar state of Rakhine. After spending a week in Myanmar, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation...
A military commissions judge at Guantanamo Bay announced Thursday that he will hear oral arguments regarding allegations by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that the government censored discussions...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused government forces and rebels in Syria of summarily capturing and killing opposition forces in violation of international humanitarian law. The AI report came after 19 bodies...
A judge for the US District Court Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that the US government cannot hold people indefinitely, relying on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011, for their alleged...
Federal prosecutors urged a judge on Wednesday to give Allen Stanford the maximum sentence of 230 years in prison for his involvement in a $47 million Ponzi scheme. This would be the maximum sentence...
The Tunisian government announced Tuesday that the country would extradite former Libyan prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi , after Libya guaranteed that al-Mahmoudi would have a fair trial. The conditions that Tunisia set...
