The Scottish Parliament on Tuesday passed the Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill , in a 105 to 18 vote . The final vote in favor of the bill came after a detailed consideration of the...

European countries are violating the human rights of people trying to change their legal gender, forcing these individuals to undergo, among other things, invasive surgery and sterilization in order to change their legal status, Amnesty International (AI) ...

The UN on Monday released a report to the Security Council , which highlights the severe suffering faced by children in Syria during the period between March 2011 and November 2013. The report states that the Syrian...

Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Odah filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that he should be freed from prison upon US withdrawal from Afghanistan, citing international...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday granted a motion to put on hold a ruling upholding a California law that bans licensed therapists from working to change the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana declared Monday that Wednesday's scheduled execution of 70-year-old Christopher Sepulvado by lethal injection will be delayed for 90 days. Sepulvado was charged with the...

Thailand's Democrat party, the country's main opposition political party, petitioned the Thai Constitutional Court Tuesday to annul the results of last week's national elections, alleging that the polls were unconstitutional. The petition also seeks ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday encouraged Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to refuse to sign a law passed by parliament that they say would deny women protection from domestic violence and forced marriage....

A French court opened trial Tuesday against former Rwandan intelligence chief Pascal Simbikangwa in the country's first trial of a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide . Simbikangwa, 54, is charged with arming and directing Hutu...

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday criticized a recently enacted Saudi Arabian counterterrorism law that it claims will entrench existing patterns of human rights violations. "This disturbing new law confirms our worst fears," said Said Boumedouha,...