Montana Governor Steve Bullock on Thursday approved a revision to the state code that formally decriminalizes same-sex intercourse in the state. The bill struck from the state code a phrase stating that deviate sexual relations...

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Thursday began the retrial of Fatmir Limaj , a prominent political figure in the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday condemned Iraq's execution of 21 prisoners this week, urging the country's compliance with international human rights obligations. Pillay expressed dismay with the numbers of...

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was placed under house arrest on Friday. He appeared before a magistrate after he was arrested in his home in the suburbs of Islamabad. Musharraf escaped the...

A state judge in North Dakota said Thursday that he will rule that a 2011 North Dakota law that restricts drug-induced abortions is unconstitutional. Judge Wickham Corwin of the Cass County District Court announced...

A group of UN independent experts urged the World Bank on Thursday to adopt human rights standards that will protect vulnerable populations at the World Bank's meeting on the organization's social policies. The UN experts...

The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Wednesday rejected a request by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to have access to court documents from the case against Bradley Manning [advocacy website;...

Senegalese prosecutors have charged Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president Abdoulaye Wade , with corruption for allegedly embezzling USD $1.4 billion during his father's years in office. The corruption claim centers on Wade's acquisition of real...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed concern over reports of human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) . Since the Seleka coalition forces [WorldWideConflict...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that the international community must do more to prevent atrocities, during a ceremony Monday commemorating the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Ban urged member states to precipitate the...