Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday directed the Pakistan Foreign Office to contact US Ambassador Richard Hogland to criticize US drone strikes. Sharif's comments came hours after a drone strike in North Waziristan killed...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson on Friday urged the Obama administration to provide more clarity on its counterterrorism policies. While Emmerson's office recently released a statement strongly...

US District Judge David Campbell on Thursday refused to reconsider stopping an order by Governor Jan Brewer denying driver's licenses to young immigrants who have been granted work permits. Campbell has yet to schedule a...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, on Thursday emphasized in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that efforts to mask the human rights...

The Obama administration on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court to limit the scope of its review of the case challenging the president's power to temporarily fill vacancies in government offices. The government laid out...

Cambodia's National Assembly unanimously approved a bill on Friday making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed the Khmer Rouge regime. The bill passed while minority leaders were excluded from the legislature....

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated Friday that the Singapore government's new licensing requirements for news sources impinges on free speech . By placing a registration fee on sources that meet threshold levels of Internet...

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. Vermont became the seventeenth state in the US to decriminalize marijuana, adding to a growing trend of...

The UN released a letter on Thursday from UN human rights experts voicing their concern that two Russian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been charged by Russian prosecutors following their involvement with the UN Committee against Torture [official...

New Mexico Attorney General Gary King said Thursday that New Mexico law does not necessarily allow same-sex marriages . The statement does not directly comment on the matter, as it was made in response to a...