UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday expressed concern about the human rights situation in Syria during her opening address to the Human Rights Council. Pillay said that the deteriorating situation...

The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced on Monday that it will transfer power to the newly elected president by the end of this month, according to Egypt's official news agency. The polls closed...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will face charges associated with the shooting of a Ukrainian lawmaker, a deputy prosecutor said Monday. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka had indicated last month that...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent...

China authorities launched an investigation on Friday into whether local family planning officials forced Feng Jianmei to have an abortion in her seventh month of pregnancy. Feng and her family allege that earlier this month she was...

The UN Security Council on Sunday demanded the immediate release of a group of four staff members from the International Criminal Court (ICC) detained in Libya earlier this month. The Security Council noted...

The UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) suspended its mission to supervise the implementation of a peace plan in the country on Saturday. Major General Robert Mood, head of the UNSMIS mission, blamed the group's exit from...

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) said Friday that President Barack Obama's plan to issue an executive order implementing policies of the DREAM Act is unconstitutional and he plans to sue the Obama administration to delay its...

Newly appointed UN Independent Expert on Human Rights in Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, said on Friday, following his first mission to Sudan, that the country still needs to take further steps to ensure its people have adequate...

A boycott by defense lawyers in the case of hundreds of Turkish military officers accused of plotting a coup against the government in 2003 caused the judge to refer the case on Friday to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office...