A Hungarian court in Gyor ordered a retria on Monday over the 2010 toxic red sludge spill that killed ten people in one of the country's worst environmental disasters. Judge Csilla Zolyomi said that there had...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the government of Myanmar to "urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses" against the Rohingya Muslim population, including sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. According...

Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long...

Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal...

A report released Monday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that 4,444 people alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Australia between January 1985 and February 2015. Looking at data...

China said Sunday it would begin imposing harsh punishments on those involved with illegal financing activities, with a particular focus on underground banking and the stock market, following a string of scandals. In particular, the state news agency...

The government of Romania on Saturday repealed a decree enacted earlier in the week that had decriminalized corruption offenses and official misconduct in which the damages were less than €44,000. Since the enactment, protesters had taken to the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled Friday in favor of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in issuing a stay of President Donald Trump's controversial immigration restrictions. The...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the Department of Energy had completed the required investigations for the delivery of liquid radioactive waste from Chalk River in Ontario, Canada, to...

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk recommended on Friday that the UN Security Council and the General Assembly act to ensure Israel complies with Security Council resolution 2234 , which confirms that Israeli settlements in already...