UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday called on the Mexican government to investigate possible complicity by government officials in the mid-December abduction of 40 Central American migrants. While details are somewhat...

A group of independent UN human rights experts will investigate the 2009 prison death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, his former colleague William Browder announced Thursday. Magnitsky was arrested after implicating Russian police in a...

Verizon on Thursday filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging new net neutrality rules that will allow the government...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday said that a team of experts will be sent to Tunisia within the next week to assess the human rights priorities and meet with interim...

The Obama administration may increase its use of controversial military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a New York Times report Wednesday. Per the report, administration officials plan to...

The UK Court of Appeal on Thursday found in favor of Finnish telecommunications company Nokia in its most recent patent suit against German intellectual property firm IPCom GmbH & Co . The ruling ...

A key defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before judge Richard Holwell of the US District Court for the Southern District of New...

UN rights officials on Wednesday expressed "grave concerns" over continued post-election violence in the Ivory Coast , cautioning that genocide could be imminent . During a daily briefing, UN Special Advisor on Genocide Francis...

Accused Arizona gunman Jared Lee Loughner was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Tuscon, Arizona. He is charged with attempting to assassinate a member of Congress [18 USC...

Four people, including former UN spokesperson Michele Montas, filed criminal complaints on Wednesday against former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier . Montas, who worked for the UN under Ban-Ki Moon, as well as Alix Fils-Aime and...