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It was supposed to be the final week of the war-crimes trial of the former Liberian president. Then oddly familiar theatrics cast a pall of doubt over the proceedings and raised new questions about the trial's future.

In far eastern Congo, where sex crimes are rampant, an innovative experiment is underway. The goal: to end the impunity and bring a measure of justice for victims.

The Obama Administration has gone out of its way to avoid appearing too insistent in calling on other governments to expand democracy and human rights. Then came Egypt.

The abduction of an innocent man, which became one of the most embarrassing diplomatic incidents in recent memory, just got a little more embarrassing for the CIA.

Mexico is struggling to leave behind an outdated and ineffective criminal justice system. One state, Morelos, has taken an unprecedented step.

Hungary’s new media laws are part of a broad partisan effort to radically reshape the country’s democracy. The European Union needs to take the challenge seriously.

Prosecutors have one final chance to convince judges that former Liberian president Charles Taylor was responsible for the horrific violence—murders, rapes, hacked-off limbs, and looting—committed by rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war.

The UK Parliament has agreed to drastically cut the police recording of stops and searches. The trouble is the figures behind the decision don't add up.

Sebastian Kohn of the Open Society Justice Initiative talked about the under-recognized problem of stateless children and the overwhelming importance of ensuring access to the very basic right of nationality.

With a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights finally debunked one of the great myths about Europe's treatment of asylum seekers.

With lawyers set to deliver their closing arguments at the war-crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Sierra Leoneans are waiting for only one thing: the final word on whether he is guilty or innocent.

In an age where any inquiry by a government into its complicity in rendition and torture is rare, a small step from Australia is welcome. But we should not confuse it with proper accountability.

Many observers wonder at the apparent disconnect between American support for justice abroad and President Obama's determination to "look forward not backward" at home.

On the 60th anniversary of World Human Rights Day, the date when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN, how far have we come in realizing that document's promise?

The trial of accused war criminal Jean-Pierre Bemba provides hope to survivors of rape and other abuse—hope that their voices will be heard and that one day, the violence will stop.

As the war-crimes trial of former Congolese vice president Bemba opens in The Hague, the court has a chance to demonstrate its ability to hold a high-profile, fair, and speedy trial and to prove that it takes sex crimes very seriously.

An Amnesty International report released this week calls for a break in the conspiracy of silence surrounding Europe's complicity in CIA-driven torture and extraordinary renditions.

The decision to suspend the UNESCO "dictator prize" is a testament to the power of an informed global citizenry to strip away the veneer of untouchability from a corrupt human rights abuser with a god complex.