UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay , in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council during an emergency session on Tuesday, called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria. Pillay...

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) announced Monday that it arrested six Serbian officials in Kosovo on Saturday, under allegations that they were "suspected of exerting undue pressure ...

Over 80 percent of voters in Syria have voted to approve the new Syrian constitution , officials said Monday. The proposed constitution will impose term limits on the president as well as provide for a multi-party...

Thousands of Sri Lankans joined government-sponsored protests on Monday in opposition to a proposed UN Human Rights Council resolution concerning crimes that allegedly occurred during the country's civil war. The protests, which were planned throughout 150 cities...

Dr. Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA) on Sunday published the second in a series of reports examining the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The report ,...

The Supreme Court of Indonesia on Monday restored a 15-year prison sentence for radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his conviction on terrorism charges. Bashir appealed to the Supreme Court his...

Judge Carl Barbier of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana postponed the trial over the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, hours before it was set...

The Spanish Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision acquitted Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Monday of abuse of power charges . Garzon was charged with abusing power...

The former governor of Delta state in Nigeria, James Ibori, pleaded guilty in a UK court on Monday to 10 counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. The former governor of Nigeria's oil-rich state is...

A Cairo Criminal Court judge on Sunday adjourned the trial of 43 non-governmental organization (NGO) employees, including 16 Americans and 27 other foreigners, until April following the first day of the trial. Employees of the International Republican Institute, the...