The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) . The court granted certiorari in three separate cases, reserving five-and-half-hours...

A UN official on Saturday expressed concern regarding the lack of transparency in an inquiry by the UK into allegations that its secret services were complicit in torture of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The UN's Special Rapporteur...

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) on Sunday urged President Thein Sein to release political prisoners . In an open letter to Sein published in three state-owned newspapers, the MNHRC indicated that domestic and international...

The State Tax Service of the Ukraine on Friday announced formal charges against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for embezzlement and tax evasion. The new charges allege [RIA...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Friday for an investigation of the previous day's aerial bombing of a refugee camp in Unity State in South Sudan. Refugees in the camp claimed to...

An internal UN conflict was publicized Friday concerning a dispute between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the judges he appointed to his employee rights safeguards tribunals. Just over two years after Ban instituted...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday urged the US Supreme Court not to hear Arizona's appeal of a decision enjoining four provisions of the state's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials;...

Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj went on trial on Friday for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia . Limaj allegedly ordered two captured Serb policemen executed and tortured another...

Syrian governmental forces have been committing crimes against humanity , including torture and unlawful killings of anti-government protesters in Homs, Syria , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Friday. According to...

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday that his office would prosecute individuals involved election violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC is expected to hold presidential...