Planned Parenthood Arizona (PPA) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Arizona Monday against Arizona state officials to enjoin enforcement of a new state law that would block funding for...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments Monday on whether US courts could hear foreign nationals' challenges to their detention by the US military at Bagram Air Force Base (Bagram) [official website; JURIST...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respect international standards of due process during the...

An elderly New York woman petitioned the US Supreme Court on Monday to hear her challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Edith Schlain Windsor, 83, successfully sued the US government [complaint,...

An anti-terrorism court judge in Pakistan ruled Tuesday that a report compiled by a nine-member judiciary committee, which includes statements of the witnesses in India, could not be used in cases related to the 2008 Mumai terror attacks [BBC...

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Monday that turnover from transnational organized criminal networks is estimated to be around $870 billion a year . With the statement, the UNODC launched its global awareness-raising...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged member states to consider proposals to strengthen the world's human rights treaty body system. At an informal meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, Pillay...

Romanian interim president Crin Antonescu signed a law Monday requiring that at least 50 percent of the electorate turn out for the July 29 national referendum to decide whether suspended president Traian Basescu [official website,...

An Omani court on Monday sentenced six human rights activists to between 12 and 18 months in prison for social media posts that were deemed to be slander against the country's ruler, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday. Badr...

The Constitutional Court of Hungary on Monday ruled that a new law lowering the mandatory retirement age for the country's judges is unconstitutional. The court held that the new law, which...