Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina and former vice president Roxana Baldetti are among 70 people facing charges in relation to an scheme embezzling millions of dollars of government money. The most recent charges for the pair,...

Brazil must place more emphasis on remedying and preventing business-related human rights violations, according to a report presented Friday by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights . In its report, the Working Group...

Canada's Liberal government said Thursday that it would strike an amendment expanding the definition of who may seek physician-assisted suicide. The bill , which was passed Wednesday by the Senate , would allow individuals that are not...

A group of independent UN human rights experts urged India on Thursday to repeal a law increasingly being used to obstruct civilian access to foreign funding. This news comes in the wake of a six-month suspension on the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday signed an order rejecting Texas' attempts to halt Syrian refugee resettlement in the state. The order provided a factual...

A UN-mandated human rights inquiry reported Thursday that the Islamic State (IS) has been committing genocide against the Yazidi people, in addition to a carrying out a variety of other war crimes and human rights violations. The...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday declassified 50 documents related to its detention and Interrogation program pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. This several hundred-page release covers internal CIA...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar , a case dealing with fraud claims against federal contractors. The question before the court was whether the...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States in favor of a veteran-owned business in a challenge against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) . In 2006...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. on the standard for awarding attorney's fees under § 505 of the Copyright Act . Under the act, the...