UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday remarked on her visit to South Sudan, praising the country's development and calling on the new nation to commit to a human rights infrastructure of...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should acknowledge civilian casualties from air strikes in Libya and investigate possible unlawful attacks , Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Monday. In a 76-page report , "Unacknowledged...

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday overturned the ruling of a lower court that would have postponed the upcoming presidential elections. Last Wednesday, a provincial court in the town of Benha ruled to suspend the elections following alleged...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday implored the Moldovan government to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination law . The proposed law, in development since 2008, is seen as a large...

The Sri Lanka Police on Sunday released the names of thousands of people being held under that country's anti-terror laws. The release comes three years after the end of the country's 26-year civil war with...

The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday issued a ruling preventing the construction of a new hydroelectric dam in Patagonia. The dam was one of three hydroelectric plants proposed by Energia Austral , a...

A 14-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 12-2 Friday that the earlier dismissal of lawsuits against two Abu Ghraib contractors on the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments Friday from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which is appealing a dismissal of a challenge over the no-fly list maintained by the Transportation...

Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic on Friday addressed the recent increase in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the resulting human rights...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request arising out of 2010 cyber attack on Google targeting...