The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's law against second-parent adoptions, which effectively bans individuals in same-sex couples from adopting their partner's child. The ban is...

The government of the Falkland Islands announced on Tuesday that it will hold a referendum on its political status close to its 30-year anniversary of independence from Argentina's occupation in 1982. Gavin...

A Tunisian military court on Wednesday convicted former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on charges of inciting violence and murder in connection with the death of four protesters in January 2011...

Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment by a Tehran Revolutionary Court , his daughter said Tuesday. Maede Soltani, who lives in Germany, was...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged Bangladesh to open its borders to hundreds of refugees fleeing sectarian violence in neighboring Myanmar . Escalating violence between Buddhists and ethnic Rohingya Muslims...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday expressed its desire to start two Kenya trials simultaneously to avoid any appearance of bias in the March 2013 presidential election. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo stated in...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit seeking to halt Florida's ongoing purging of voter rolls. The DOJ alleges that Florida's policy violates the National...

The office of prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) asked the court on Wednesday to sentence the convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to...

A referendum to overturn a new same-sex marriage law in Washington will appear on the ballots in November, the Secretary of State's office announced on Tuesday. Voters will have the...

Lawyers for student organizations asked the Quebec Superior Court on Tuesday to suspend parts of an emergency law that restrict spontaneous protests until the law's constitutionality is determined. The law, "An Act to enable students...