Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an injunction freezing opposition party efforts to start impeachment deliberations against President Dilma Rousseff . Despite the injunction, lower house...

Amnesty International (AI) announced Tuesday it is setting up an office in Nigeria to investigate human rights abuses. In a showing of "solidarity with the victims of human rights violations," AI has established a permanent...

Officials in UAE should investigate and prosecute credible accusations of torture reported by detainees, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. According to HRW, three former detainees and the relative of a current detainee detailed instances...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two psychologists who devised the torture techniques used on three former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisoners. The CIA contracted psychologists James Mitchell and John...

Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 , data retention laws requiring companies to keep records and information, went into effect on Tuesday. The law requires telecommunications providers to maintain records of acount holders, sources of...

Home Office statistics revealed Tuesday that hate crimes in England and Wales have risen by 18 percent over the last year. Police recorded 52,528 hate crimes between 2014 and 2015, which were motivated by factors...

US-backed Kurdish forces and other militant groups have been committing war crimes in northern Syria in an effort to quash any sympathy or support for the Islamic State (IS) , Amnesty International (AI) reported...

Iran's Parliament on Tuesday voted 161-59, with 13 abstentions, to accept the nuclear agreement that was introduced and agreed upon by world powers over the summer. Under the terms of the deal, Iran agrees to remove...

Mexico's attorney general on Sunday released a 54,000-page file detailing the Mexican government's investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students. Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez provided the partially-redacted document through Twitter ...

A South African deputy minister said Sunday that the nation will leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) , opining that the court has "lost its direction." Following criticism for ignoring an ICC directive to arrest the...