Rights groups asked a Spanish court on Thursday to indict a former president of El Salvador and 14 ex-officials over the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others...

The Saudi government has banned a crusading defense attorney from traveling abroad to receive an award for his work, an international rights group said Wednesday.

Gay-rights activists see opportunities for their cause in Utah thanks to Mormon church officials, who strongly supported California’s proposition denying same-sex...

Israel accused the U.N. Human Rights Council Tuesday of targeting the Jewish state “in an obsessive and discriminatory fashion,” but Egypt said it is...

South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. resolution condemning North Korea’s alleged human rights abuses for the first time, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.

South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. resolution condemning North Korea’s alleged human rights abuses for the first time, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.

Beatings, rapes and killings of dissidents have escalated in Zimbabwe because the politicians and police who are responsible have not been punished, Amnesty...

Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data...

Yemeni security forces have unlawfully arrested hundreds of people, including journalists, during a four-year conflict with Shiite rebels in the country’s north,...

North Korea is using public executions to intimidate its citizens and has imposed restrictions on long distance calls to block the spread of news about rising food...

A U.N. human rights expert said late Wednesday the Security Council risks losing credibility as a law-abiding body if it does not change the way it imposes sanctions on...

Federal prosecutors have identified 22 current investigations into civil rights-era crimes that could be impacted by a federal appeals court’s decision to...

Amnesty International says that dozens of condemned prisoners awaiting execution in Nigeria haven’t been able to appeal their death sentences and others have been...

President Alvaro Uribe’s government has consistently tried to obstruct legal efforts to rid Colombia of far-right militias and punish politicians and military...

Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant Tuesday to expand protections of a landmark voting rights law in a case from North Carolina.

The U.N.’s new human rights chief said Wednesday she would press governments worldwide to ensure they followed international rights standards while tackling...

A Montana woman who lost a court battle with her former same-sex partner over parental rights filed an appeal Thursday with the state Supreme Court.

A judge ruled in favor of a woman who sought parental rights to a boy and girl adopted by her former same-sex partner, a decision described as a first for Montana.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu appealed to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday to show the same concern for protecting Israelis from Palestinian attacks as it does for...

Democrat Barack Obama said if elected president he would not try to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on his own.