Gabon's Constitutional Court on Saturday upheld incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's victory over challenger Jean Ping , despite calls for a recount based on alleged vote rigging. Ping's allegations focused on the Haut-Ogooue province, where Bongo...

US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have allowed 9/11 victims and their families to sue Saudi Arabia, citing concerns that it would open US diplomats and servicemen to suit abroad....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday urged the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to end its pattern of expelling and detaining migrants contrary to international standards. Numerous Central European countries have...

A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the US government to halt the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline out of respect for the rights of affected Native Americans. Earlier this month the North Dakota...

Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier imprisoned for leaking classified documents, was sentenced on Thursday to two weeks of solitary confinement as a punishment for a suicide attempt, as well as for keeping a banned book in her quarters. According...

UN experts condemned Australia Friday for its laws allowing indefinite detention of intellectually disabled persons facing criminal charges. Under the current law, if a person is found unfit to plead to a charge against them, they may be held...

International human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) , issued a joint letter on Thursday to the permanent representatives of member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council urging them "to...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called on the international community to intensify its efforts to protect cultural treasures against enemy combatants in regions devastated by conflict. Ban specifically directed attention to attacks on cultural heritage...

Advocacy groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the redrawn boundaries for North Carolina's congressional seats. Plaintiffs are arguing that the district lines were influenced by politics. Some of the parties involved in the suit are...

Human rights groups Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) on Thursday reported that justice still has not been achieved for the victims of the violent...