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As the Dominican Republic hosts a regional conference on women's rights, tens of thousands of Dominican women of Haitian descent face the prospect of being stripped of their nationality.

With renewed talks underway between Israel and the Palestinians, the status of a Palestinian approach to the International Criminal Court remains murky.

An international tribunal rules on Thursday on the appeal of Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, against his conviction and 50-year sentence for war crimes.

A new African initiative takes aim at the excessive and arbitrary use of pretrial detention and its associated human and economic costs.

A ruling from the European Court of Justice has underlined the need for reform of European law on public access to information.

The judgment demonstrated the willingness of the Kenyan judiciary to hold the executive to account for human rights abuses committed in the name of national security and counterterrorism.

Private Bradley Manning has been given a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified U.S. government documents. What penalty would be considered proportionate to the harm caused under international standards?

The European Court of Human Rights has explicitly rejected Hungary’s argument that the economic crisis justified a policy that violated human rights.

With a possible new investigation in Nigeria looming, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has made a first ever request for substantial new financial support. Will states pay up?

Lawyers representing a suspect under investigation by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal have been denied access to the case file, in spite of repeated requests.

The East African Court of Justice is an emerging venue for human rights litigation. But a series of recent decisions will restrict the ability of victims to bring such cases.

In a new judgment, the European Court of Human Rights considered whether life in prison was acceptable if there was no possibility of a review or release—in other words, no hope.

The countries of the world are drawing up development priorities for the next decade and beyond. Here's a brief introduction to the process.

In cases concerning the protection of refugees from being returned to places where they may be at risk of ill-treatment, two recent decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee show that timing is everything.

Like all liberties, freedom of expression must be weighed against other rights, including the right to be free from discrimination. How do courts strike a balance? Consider the case of Thilo Sarrazin.

The chairs of the UN’s ten human rights treaty bodies added their voices to the growing calls to recognize the intrinsic connection between sustainable development and the rule of law.

Can deportation be based on secret grounds to protect national security? The Court of Justice of the European Union recently took up the question.

What good is international law if states don’t follow it? Should we care about international courts if governments don’t do what they say? A new book looks at how to connect court judgments and real change.

Read a primer on the just-released United Nations report on the future shape of the world’s development strategy after 2015.