The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday upheld the life sentence Milan Lukic, a Bosnian Serb commander who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes that include burning more than...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday identified a series of gross human rights abuses committed by al Qaeda affiliates and Yemen's government forces during the 2011–2012 conflict over control of the country's southern region of Abyan....

More than 300 of Sri Lanka's judges met in the capital Colombo on Monday to demand an impartial inquiry into charges against the nation's Supreme Court chief justice. The judges issued a statement in which...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Francois Crepeau on Monday urged Greece and the EU to increase their efforts to ensure that the rights of all migrants are fully respected as they...

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a nuisance suit by Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania to compel the US Army Corp of Engineers and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago...

Swedish telecom company Ericsson filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission on Friday against Samsung seeking an import ban on Samsung's Galaxy line of products. This came just three days...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Monday. The first case, Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk , concerned whether an issue at the center of a lawsuit is moot...

The Ivory Coast could face ongoing violence and be deprived of justice if human rights offenders are not prosecuted, a senior UN rights official warned Monday. While visiting the city of Abidjan, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights...

Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council on Monday agreed to oversee a national referendum on the country's new constitution . The Council, which is Egypt's highest administrative body overseeing the courts, plans to delegate judges to monitor the...

The Chief Judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Friday that Somalia's territorial waters extend no more than 12 miles from shore, concluding that the US has jurisdiction to prosecute a...