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LGBTI people continue to be murdered, raped, and harassed—sometimes by the government that is supposed to protect them—while the UN is unable to unanimously decide whether these crimes actually violate human rights at all.

The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Czech Republic violated the free trial rights of an applicant seeking restitution of property that was seized after the Second World War.

A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights involving Princess Caroline of Monaco clarifies the criteria for balancing the right to private life and freedom of expression

In an eagerly anticipated decision, the International Court of Justice upheld Germany's sovereign immunity for World War II era violations of international humanitarian law.

Amid emotional, politicized attacks on the European Court of Human Rights, a recent ruling on pretrial detention that covers 250 Russian cases provides an eloquent witness for the defense.

The member states of the European Union needs to respond to the inhumane conditions facing migrants in Greece by taking responsibility for people, rather than just shifting money around.

World leaders have an opportunity at the United Nations this year to declare that the application of law should be free of the taint of political interest.

Black people in the United Kingdom are now 30 times more likely to be stopped than white people under exceptional stop and search powers granted by a 1994 law.

The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the Greek courts failed to acknowlege the gravity of a brutal 2001 sexual assault on an undocumented migrant.

In two important rulings, the European Court of Human Rights has concluded that mandatory life jail sentences without the possibility of parole do not constitute a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In a setback for equal rights, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a series of petitions challenging a law that, among other things, makes it impossible for Palestinians to acquire Israeli citizenship through marriage.

Mauritania has carried out the first prosecutions under its 2007 anti-slavery law. But more needs to be done to manage the unintended consequences of criminalizing a deeply entrenched social phenomemon.

In July the Republic of South Sudan became Africa's newest independent state. The Sudanese government refuses to consider the hundreds of thousands of "southerners" who reside in the North as citizens.

Seven years after the killing of his father, who was a leading Gambian editor, Deyda Hydara Jr. spoke in a BBC Africa radio interview about what happened, and why he is taking his father's case to West Africa's regional court.

A new report exposes the prevalence of racial profiling in Spain, painting a powerful portrait of the indignities suffered by those who do not "look Spanish" and of the official policies that encourage rather than curtail ethnic profiling.

Corruption is never good. But corruption in pretrial detention is especially insidious.

Reporters have revealed the precise location of a secret site in Romania used by the CIA to hold and interrogate terrorism suspects from 2003 to 2006—a site Romania's government continues to claim no knowledge of.

Police in England continue to argue that "stop and search" tactics are essential in the battle against knife crime. But the numbers are not convincing.

The European Court of Human Rights is collapsing under the weight of its own success. A new push to address its caseload, and other problems, may determine whether the world's premier human rights tribunal lives or dies.