A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday praised an announcement by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak of plans to repeal the country's 1948...

The German government on Friday announced that it will act swiftly to lift criminal sanctions imposed on circumcision . Spokesperson for Chancellor Angela Merkel , Steffen Seibert, said that without adequate protections for the...

Chile enacted an anti-discrimination law Thursday following the March beating death of a young gay man in a Santiago park. The hate crime bill , which had been tied up in Congress for seven years after being...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that the Highland Park School District has violated state and federal law by failing to ensure that students are...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Melissa Fleming on Friday reported that 10 UN staff and aid workers have been arrested in the northwestern Rakhine state of Myanmar and...

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning , joined by attorneys general from six other states will continue their lawsuit challenging new health care mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that...

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Friday dismissed opposition party petitions challenging the ability of the ruling Puea Thai party to amend the country's constitution. The court ruled that the parliament could amend...

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have prohibited mandatory insurance coverage of birth control for anyone with ethical or religious objections. Nixon explained that while he...

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging an Arizona law that prohibits abortions after 20 weeks into a...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Friday that the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic will resume Monday after being postponed for...