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By banning headscarves, what message is Europe sending to its Muslim population? That we are open, tolerant and pluralistic, but not towards you?

Unfamiliar with the concept? You aren't alone. Welcome to the next big thing in international justice.

Despite considerable legal gains, discrimination against Roma remains widespread in Europe, and while violence has subsided in some countries, it has increased in others.

The raw courage demonstrated by Eman al-Obeidy in telling her story of alleged repeated gang rape and torture in Libya is helping change the dialogue in Libya and the Middle East about the use of sexual violence as a weapon of repression.

In a country well-acquainted with murder and twisting tales of deceit, there's a sense of having seen it all. Then along comes the story of Rodrigo Rosenberg.

The Dominican Republic is talking up reforms in its discriminatory process for acquiring national identity documents. A closer look reveals a much less encouraging picture.

The fate of five suspected perpetrators of mass atrocities remains undecided—and they may never reach trial because of interference from the Cambodian government.

Believe it or not, one of the richest countries on earth simply cannot be bothered to document the size of its stateless population, let alone resolve this long-standing problem.

In the wake of Wikileaks and in the midst of the turmoil across the Middle East and North Africa, today at the UN the Human Rights Committee will reconsider its interpretation of Article 19, which guarantees the right to freedom of expression....

It's rare that statelessness finds its way into the headlines. But with one minister resigning and another now under attack, a fight over citizenship policy is roiling the political scene in Denmark.

V. C. was just twenty years old when she was sterilized after giving birth in a Slovakian hospital. She claims her Roma ethnicity played a vital role in her sterilization. Next week, the European Court of Human Rights will hear the case.

The UN has put the Spanish government on notice: Police who engage in ethnic profiling are violating the human right to nondiscrimination.

Some 10 million people pass through pretrial detention every year, many of them spending months or even years behind bars—without being tried or found guilty. It's a waste of human potential that undermines economic development.

Europe's top human-rights watchdog issued an urgent rebuke to the Czech Republic last week: Stop the continued racial segregation of Roma children in schools, which damns them to "a future as second-class citizens."

French criminal courts recently resolved an unusual case, which might have had a chilling effect on academic speech, with a judgment that should be welcomed by scholars everywhere.