The Dutch parliament on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban weapon exports to Saudi Arabia. The Netherlands is now the first country to pass formal legislation banning exports to Riyadh, after a February decision by the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached a settlement with the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, on Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging that the detention of defendants unable to pay fines for misdemeanor charges exhibited deliberate indifference...

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued a decision Wednesday rescinding the summons for Serbian national Vojislav Seselj to appear in court on March 31 for a...

The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic (CAR), Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum, made her sixth visit to the nation on Wednesday and shared an update on the human rights situation with President Faustin...

The US Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Tuesday. The bill was introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) early in 2015 and passed through the...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan affirmed the ruling of a lower court on Tuesday allowing former president Pervez Musharraf to travel abroad. The court held that the former president, who is still awaiting trial on...

The Kentucky Senate on Tuesday approved a bill allowing businesses to refuse service to gays and lesbians based upon their religious beliefs. The amended bill, which will be a new section to KRS 446 ,...

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the...

A UN official said Wednesday that Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami received a royal pardon on Tuesday night and has been freed after more than four years in prison. The poet received a 15-year prison sentence in 2011 after...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called Tuesday for the UN Human Rights Council to increase its impact in the next decade, citing the erosion of human rights around the world. In a speech marking the the...