The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) has indicted Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Bangladesh-born UK Muslim leader, for crimes against humanity and genocide including his alleged role in the murder of top intellectuals during the country's...

Members of the UN Working Group on business and human rights ended a 10-day mission to the US on Wednesday after exploring practices, challenges and lessons relating to the country's implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on...

Chaudhry Zulfikar , chief prosecutor in the criminal case against Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf , was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting on Friday. Zulfikar had been due to appear ...

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Thursday signed into law a bill legalizing same-sex marriage . The bill was signed shortly after the House of Representatives approved it by a vote...

2012 marked the deadliest year for journalists, with at least 23 professional and 58 citizen journalists killed, according to a report released Friday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) . RSF released its annual Press Freedom Index...

US Attorney General Eric Holder has warned Kansas that a recently enacted law intended to block enforcement of federal gun regulations is unconstitutional, according to a letter released Thursday. According to Holder, SB 102 ,...

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police need a warrant to search a defendant's cell phone at the time of arrest. The court ruled 5-2 that officers were permitted to confiscate the defendant's cell...

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed into law a bill to repeal the death penalty. The legislation, which makes Maryland the eighteenth US state to repeal the death penalty, was approved...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana on Thursday welcomed recommendations by the Myanmar government's Rakhine Investigation Commission, but also voiced a strong need for the government to address...

The conditions of Greece's bailout plan, put in place by its international lenders, have severely undercut the ability of Greek citizens to obtain a standard of living in line with international human rights standards, according to a report [press...