The chief US military judge for the Guantanamo Bay 9/11 military commission trial has approved the US government's request for a protective order . The order, made public Wednesday, effectively blocks the public's access...

Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday convicted former Bosnian Serb army commander Zdravko Tolimir of genocide, crimes against humanity...

Justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq, a judge for the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) resigned from his position on Tuesday. Huq was the chairman of the tribunal's three-judge panel, and is a Justice for the High Court Division...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday invalidated a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois, ultimately deciding that the law is unconstitutional. Relying on the US Supreme Court ...

The UK Minister for Women and Equalities announced Tuesday the Conservative government's intent to legalize same-sex marriage in the coming year, with a provision that the state Church of England [religious...

The prime minister of Mali , Cheick Modibo Diarra, was forced to resign on state television Tuesday after junta soldiers arrested him for attempting to leave the country in light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis threatening the...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that HSBC Holdings , one of the world's largest banking institutions based in the UK, and HSBC Bank USA , a federally chartered banking corporation...

Women in Afghanistan still face abuse at the hands of man despite progress in the implementation of a law to protect women's rights, according a report released Tuesday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) ....

The prison sentence for outspoken Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab , who has been detained since July, was reduced by one year in an appeals court on Tuesday. Rajab, founder of the Bahrain Center for...

The mother of US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla on Monday filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) for torture and unlawful detention....