UN officials urged the international community to strengthen collaborative efforts to combat human trafficking on Tuesday at a special General Assembly meeting. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that there are at...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal , a former member of the Black Panthers who was convicted of killing a police officer in Philadelphia...

The Office of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Tuesday that the ICC lacks jurisdiction to investigate allegations of crimes committed in Palestine during the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict . After considering...

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday granted prosecutors' warrant petition for the arrest of a former leader of the Islamist group Jamaat e Islami (JI) for crimes committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday expressed concern over political and security instability in Mali, and how ongoing fighting between government forces and Tuareg rebels will affect Malians forced to flee their...

A group of same-sex couples filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the grounds that the law discriminates against same-sex couples in which one...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday filed charges in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) alleging...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a 1996 amendment to the California Constitution which bars preferential treatment for "any individual or group on the basis...

The full Federal Court of Australia ruled Tuesday that Google Inc. engaged in advertising practices that were deceptive and misleading, resulting in a violation of the country's consumer protection laws. The Australian Competition and Consumer...

Solitary confinement conditions in Arizona's maximum security prisons violate international human rights law, according to a report published Monday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report describes isolation conditions in maximum security prisons run by the Arizona...