The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked lower court ruling allowing both partners in same-sex couples to be listed as the "birth parents" on birth certificates of their children. The court and state health department will,...

Interpol agents on Thursday announced the arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, who had a USD $5 million bounty . Ntaganzwa, who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the...

The European Commission on Thursday initiated an infringement action against Hungary's new asylum law and the country's response to the refugee situation. Hungary recently erected a fence along its border to keep migrants from crossing...

Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican human rights activist, on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of Jamaica's Offences Against the Person Act of 1864 , which criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between men, in the Supreme Court of Jamaica ....

Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina was formally charged by prosecutors on Wednesday following the investigation into the corruption scandal that led to his resignation. Prosecutor Francisco Sandoval said that Pérez Molina is suspected of illicit association, customs...

A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a North Carolina law that permits magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six plaintiffs...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the use of racial preference in undergraduate university admissions. In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin the court must decide whether the University...

The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil on Wednesday suspended impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff until the court can determine the constitutional validity of a secret ballot. The vote is to determine whether the congressional...

Although hostilities have significantly declined in Ukraine, "serious human rights concerns persist," the UN said Wednesday in a new report . The UN attributes this decrease in hostility to the August 26 ceasefire , as certain...