Uruguay's Senate passed a bill on Wednesday by a vote of 17-14 that legalizes abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Although the bill declares ...

The Northern Ireland High Court on Wednesday held that a law permitting adoption only by heterosexual married couples or single individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, is unlawful. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) [advocacy...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from Alabama state officials to reconsider its August ruling partially striking down the state's immigration law ....

Ugandan officials have denied allegations contained in an unreleased UN Security Council report that Uganda has assisted rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ugandan foreign affairs minister Okello Oryem vehemently denied [Al Jazeera...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday argued that justice suffers from the weak relationship between the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the inconsistency of referrals. HRW urged the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that it will keep Montana's campaign contribution limits in place for the duration of the election season, extending a stay on a lower court...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that both violent crime and property crime rates increased from 2010 to 2011 . This is the first time the DOJ has reported an increase in...

Scores of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists, and perhaps Gaddafi himself, were "summarily executed" when rebels sacked the ruler's final stronghold last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. According to HRW, when...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a municipality's ban on funeral protests. The court ruled that a ban on funeral protests in Manchester, Missouri, was a legitimate restriction on...

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began his defense Tuesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) by denying all charges against him. Karadzic opened by describing...