UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday reiterated his call for global support against the use of death penalty . The message was delivered by UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang in an...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged that the international community must continue to prevent human rights abuses and hold perpetrators accountable. Speaking at the opening of the 22nd...

Trial began Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana between individuals affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and British Petroleum (BP) . The other corporations involved [Reuters...

The Abu Dhabi Federal Appeal Court on Monday upheld the sentences of 10 Somali pirates convicted of highjacking a UAE-owned bulk-carrier ship. In April 2011, the men reportedly commandeered the MV Arrilah-1 as it hauled aluminum in...

Philippines President Benigno Aquino III on Monday signed legislation to compensate the victims of human rights abuses committed 27 years ago under the regime of former president Ferdinand Marcos . The Human Rights Victims Reparation...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Gabriela Knaul said Sunday that lawyers and judges in the Maldives are not adequately independent from outside influence . The special rapporteur pointed to...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed an appeal in the Guantanamo Bay military tribunal, the US Court of Military Commission Review , to an...

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a non-biological mother of children conceived using assisted reproductive technologies has parentage rights under Kansas law. Kelly Goudschaal and Marci Frazier were in a committed, long-term, same-sex...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran to allow detainees access to lawyers and provide them with basic rights. It urged UAE to not only grant immediate...

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a woman whose will designated that she be buried in Montana must be buried in Iowa at the behest of her husband. It ruled that the state's...