The new Constitution of Nepal was approved by the Constituent Assembly of Nepal on Wednesday after years of debate. The original 2010 completion date was repeatedly delayed due to international and domestic criticism for failures to protect fundamental rights. Despite continued minority protests against the final draft, the approval of the long awaited Constitution by [...]

Bangladesh’s High Court on Thursday ordered prime minister Khaleda Zia to face trial on charges of embezzling money from two corruption cases between 2001 and 2006. Fifteen other defendants are also accused along with Zia of losing over USD $20 million of government funds. Zia was granted bail in April after surrendering to the court [...]

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta was indicted Thursday for forgery, complicity in tax evasion and money laundering. Four others were also indicted in the case , which will be sent to the High Court of Cassation and Justice . Ponta was originally charged in July and resigned from his position as leader of the Social [...]

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution Wednesday for Richard Eugene Glossip, hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection. Glossip has always maintained his innocence and requested the emergency stay as well as a motion for an evidentiary hearing due to alleged new evidence that another inmate convicted in the [...]

A pair of UN officials on Tuesday condemned the “virtual silence” with regards to the increasing impact on civilians of the escalating conflict in Yemen. On Monday the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein communicated to the UN Human Rights Council that his office has discovered that there are nearly 2,000 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that a lower court judge should not have expanded a class action suit of bondholders suing Argentina. District Judge Thomas Griesa had been overseeing litigation related to Argentina’s sovereign debt default from roughly 14 years ago. The appeals court noted it was the fourth [...]

A report released Wednesday by Amnesty International (AI) details the atrocities committed by Boko Haram in Northern Cameroon, resulting in the killing of at least 400 civilians. The report details the extensive human rights violation, including shootings and suicide bombings, which have largely targeted civilians. Boko Haram has reportedly recruited child soldiers and destroyed private [...]

A UN report released Wednesday found that war crimes may have been committed during the Sri Lankan civil war. The report, which was delayed , stressed that it was a human rights investigation and not a criminal investigation, making it harder for the analysis to be a legal analysis as there were many constraints on [...]

A Canadian court on Tuesday ruled that women may be allowed to wear face-covering veils during swearing the oath of citizenship. The case, heard by a Federal Court of Appeal , was brought by Zunera Ishaq against the Canadian government after she arrived from Pakistan in 2008 and would not take part in the swearing [...]

The High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday stated that no country has achieved full equality between men and women and urged the 47 members of the Human Rights Council to make efforts to achieve such equality. During an opening statement to a panel discussion on gender equality, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein blamed such things [...]