The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that EU member states may not charge less than the standard value-added tax (VAT) on electronic publications. The court held that while physically printed books and materials may be...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday in an attempt to clarify his response to a question from Senator Al Franken regarding...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) referred Turkey to the UN Security Council on Monday for failing to release one of its judges. Turkey has detained Judge Aydin Sefa Akay on suspicion...

Bahrain's Shura Council , the upper house of parliament, on Sunday approved a change in the nation's constitution that will allow military trials for civilians accused of being involved in terrorism plots. Critics are...

Bahrain's justice ministry filed a lawsuit on Monday to dissolve an opposition group because of its threat to security. According to the ministry, the National Democratic Action Society, or Waad, had committed serious violations contrary to...

Hearings began on Monday in a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , with Ukraine asking the ICJ to bar Russia from "any action which might aggravate" the contentious border conflict between the two nations....

The US State Department on Friday released its annual report on the current human rights situation across the world. This report has been published annually since the mid-1970s and has usually been accompanied by a press conference,...

In response to the mass execution of 15 people in Jordan on Saturday, several human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) , condemned the hanging as being secretive and conducted "without transparency. This mass execution was...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday rebuffed calls for international judges to participate in the country's war crimes tribunals. The president, who has been suspicious of war crimes allegations raised by the Tamil...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, urged the government of Australia on Friday to include all women in the fight to stop violence against women. According to Šimonović, violence against women in Australia is at...