Lebanese police forces are targeting and torturing drug users, sex workers and members of LGBT communities, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, released on the UN International...

The US Supreme Court ruled in two landmark same-sex marriage cases Wednesday. In United States v. Windsor , the court ruled 5-4 that Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Human Rights Monitoring Institute on Tuesday urged Lithuania to reopen its investigation into secret CIA prisons that may have operated in the country from 2001-2006. In 2010 Lithuania...

UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons urged Morocco on Tuesday to adopt a victim-centered approach to combat human trafficking in the country. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo said "ictims...

A Saudi Arabian court on Monday sentenced human rights activist Abdulkarim al-Khader to eight years in prison for sedition. Abdulkarim al-Khader was one of the founders of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) ,...

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday ordered Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan to be tried in absentia for the murders of 19 intellectuals and 11 crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 independence war. Khan...

An advocate general for the European Court of Justice (ECJ) released an advisory opinion Tuesday finding that EU data protection law does not require Google and other Internet search companies to withdraw sensitive...

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of North Dakota alleging that two restrictive North Dakota abortion laws violate the US constitution. CRR filed...

The Intellectual Property High Court in Tokyo on Tuesday ruled that Samsung did not infringe an Apple patent regarding the synchronization of music and data on multiple devices. In so doing, the High Court affirmed...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District in favor of a landowner in a property rights case. Carl Koontz, Sr. refused to contribute money...