INTERNATIONAL LAW

HRW officials wanted to release a report on the alleged mass killing of over 800 people last year by forces loyal to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Israel has come under fire from Amnesty International for shelling Palestinian homes only moments after giving them a "roof knock" warning.

“Sri Lanka has a long history of political violence on a scale unimaginable to Australians,” says head of Australian refugee council.

The government is using this growing fear to sway public opinion on Uyghur separatists.

Australia reportedly sends asylum seekers arriving by boat for detention and processing in offshore camps.

Russia has deployed an array of operations to deter would-be terrorists from targeting the Winter Games.

Hong Kong says the U.S. messed up the middle name on its provisional arrest warrant request.

Russian authorities have detained a man working at the Moscow U.S. Embassy for allegedly attempting to recruit a Russian intelligence officer.

The European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, barred on Tuesday the extradition of a British mentally ill terrorism suspect to the U.S.

The ICC has dropped its charges against Kenya’s former Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura, but that means nothing for Uhuru Kenyatta.

Rios Montt, Guatemala's brief military dictator from 1982 to 1983 is set to go to trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

A human rights court has ruled that a civilian massacre committed by El Salvador’s military must be investigated.

The Texas Nationalist Movement is forming a PAC, but their cause is unlikely and constitutionally impossible.

Secessionist parties in the Catalonia region of Spain have taken a majority of seats in the parliament after early elections Sunday, but the bid for independence will require two oppositional factions to cooperate.

Catalonia moved closer to independence from Spain as secessionists rode public discontent over the country’s financial crisis into office.

Two days after the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, anti-"Innocence of Muslim" protests continue in Cairo, Yemen, Sudan, and other parts of the Muslim world, as world leaders appeal for calm.

Saudi Arabia regularly executes convicted criminals by beheading. Its use of the death penalty has been criticized due to a lack of transparency and due process in its criminal justice system

Southeast Asian nations and China must make "meaningful progress" in drafting a code of conduct to deal with territorial disputes in the South China Sea, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.

Divided opinion on Syrian crisis among the members led to a walkout by the Syrian delegation at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit Thursday hosted by Iran after Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said the uprising was a "revolution against an oppressive regime."

UN Special Rapporteur in Palestine Richard Falk has denounced the Rachel Corrie verdict.

On Wednesday, another unseaworthy boat with more than 150 asylum-seekers sunk to the bottom of the sea off Indonesia while seeking asylum in Australia. A continuing massive search and rescue operation has plucked 55 survivors out of the sea, but more are still missing as critical hours just ended.