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The U.S. has said it will investigate only two out of almost 100 cases of alleged mistreatment of terrorism suspects by the CIA. But international investigations and legal action into the abuses mean the questions will not go away.

After two years of consultations on the right of free of expression, the UN Human Rights Committee has strengthened protections for new media, and says blasphemy laws should not be used to restrict legitimate free expression.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Greece for holding migrants in jails designed for short-term stays, highlighting the challenge facing the European Union as a whole in addressing migration pressures.

Two landmark cases recently confirmed that the UK's human rights obligations apply to its military conduct in Iraq, finding that Britain's treatment of Iraqi civilians violated provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. The rulings are...

To mark World Day for International Criminal Justice, here's a quick look at the work that the Open Society Justice Initiative is doing to monitor the proceedings of the International Criminal Court and the special tribunals set up for Sierra...

Twenty years after the break-up of the Yugoslav federation, the European Court of Human Rights is focusing on the plight of 25,000 people who were erased from Slovenia's registry of residents after the republic declared its independence.

New legislation allows for suspects in serious crimes to be held by police for up to 48 hours without access to defense counsel, and for up to 5 days without court review.

Moldova voted against the recent UN resolution supporting LGBT rights, an action that undercuts its aspirations to move towards closer relations and possible membership of the European Union.

The human rights and anti-migrant sides of the EU immigration debate went head to head at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in a controversial case over "push-backs," or interceptions, of migrants in the Mediterranean.

A new report reminds us that torture and other ill-treatment of prisoners are not aberrations; they are common, even routine, in many detention facilities around the world.

The European Court of Human Rights will hear complaints against Italy by a group of Somali and Eritrean migrants who were pushed back to Libya by Italian naval vessels in their attempt to reach the Italian coast.

It might not sound like exciting reading, but the 2010 annual report of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights presents an important resource for all those who are interested in human rights.

The Czech government came under pressure from one of Europe's top political bodies last week for its failure to make sure all Roma children get a decent education—and was urged to lift its game starting with the next school year in September.

After a series of setbacks to efforts seeking accountability for CIA renditions, the European Parliament took an unexpected and positive step.

Europeans may be surprised to hear that basic rights, such as the right to a lawyer or a phone call, are only now being debated at the European level. Yet at the moment many countries in the region fail to provide them.

The new Czech school year starts in September, and unless something drastic changes, many more Roma children could face segregation into "special schools" on the basis of their ethnicity.

Equatorial Guinea hosts this year's youth-themed African Union summit, despite a continuing stream of human rights abuses and the endemic corruption that has left the majority of citizens in this oil-rich country mired in poverty.

The successful passage of Nigeria's first Freedom of Information law provides a case study in how a small group of committed activists can inspire a wider movement for change.

Azimjan Askarov, Kyrgyzstan's best known political prisoner, has just celebrated his 60th birthday in jail. His case stands as an indictment of the Kyrgyz government's treatment of its ethnic Uzbek minority.