Egypt's Court of Cassation on Tuesday overturned the death sentences of former President Mohamed Morsi and five fellow leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. During the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, Morsi allegedly conspired ...

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged the Kenyan government to cease coercing refugees into leaving the Dadaab refugee camp and returning to Somalia. The Kenyan government announced its intention to close Dadaab, the world's largest refugee...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Detroit citizens seeking to stop the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) [official...

Hong Kong's high court on Tuesday prohibited two newly-elected lawmakers from taking their seats in Hong Kong's Legislative Council following their recent refusal to declare allegiance to China. Upon taking their oaths last month, Baggio Leung and...

The FBI released the 2015 Hate Crime Statistics on Monday, showing the number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent rise in crimes...

US President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged the difficulties he has encountered trying to shut down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, blaming his failure on congressional restrictions. On his second day in office in 2009, Obama issued...

Reports of US war crimes committed during, and in the aftermath of, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 provide a "reasonable basis" for further investigation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined in a report released...

The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on Tuesday urged the UN and African Union to intervene and stop an impending genocide in Burundi. The plea for intervention is based on a...

The UK Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) said in a report Monday that it can find no clear evidence that Saudi Arabia has violated international humanitarian law (IHL) in Yemen. Conceding that it has been "unable...

A United Nations (UN) rights group released a statement earlier this month expressing concerns that the US government is ignoring treaty rights, as well as human rights, of Native Americans that are protesting the Dakota Access...