Spain's lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies , on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban the burqa and other full face veils, by...

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay Tuesday issued a warning about ongoing human rights violations in Kyrgyzstan following the recent ethnic violence in the country. According to Pillay, security forces in the southern...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create chemical weapons....

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted 13-6 to send the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate. The vote divided largely along party lines, with Democrats...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that two more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani was released to Cape Verde, while Abdul Aziz...

A Chinese government official announced Tuesday that Google has agreed to abide by the country's censorship laws and stop automatically redirecting users to its uncensored Hong Kong-based site. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Monday voted 23-13 to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as a consultative non-governmental organization (NGO). IGLHRC, an human rights organization for those...

Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Sunday that Zimbabwe is not bound by the rulings of the Tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) . The statement comes two days after the Tribunal ruled that farmers who...

A Turkish criminal court Monday accepted the indictment of 196 defendants, including four retired military officers, over an alleged coup plot. The 2003 Balyoz Security Operation Plan , or "Sledgehammer"...

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monday convicted Marko Boskic of committing crimes against humanity in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The conviction comes after Boskic...