The constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan says the international law does not explicitly prohibit the court-martial of civilians.A seven-member SC Constitutional Bench, headed by ...

Volker Türk said Tuesday that his office "confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city ...

Meanwhile, Cypriot authorities have actively encouraged Syrian refugees to voluntarily return to Syria, offering €1,500 and a one-way ticket to anyone who does so.

According to a new report, the number of pushbacks in Europe has risen "sharply" in recent years to the point of becoming a ...

violating human rights A senior lawyer and member of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Virendra Vashistha, has filed a petition before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), expressing concern ...

Many thanks for organizing this timely exchange of views and inviting Human Rights ... The European Union is well placed to help Mozambican authorities to become more rights-respecting and to ...

Following a European ... the court determined was part of an Iranian state agency. In a statement published by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Director General of Human Rights and ...

For 40 years, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 – has been the only international legally binding ...

The hearing marks the first time the two parties went to court since Britain left ... in its waters of the North Sea nullifies rights conferred on the European Union," Anthony Dawes, counsel ...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed an alleged human rights violation suit filed by one Patrick Eholor, on behalf of Makia Media Limited, against the Federal Government. The News Agency of ...

It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) domestically enforceable. The Bill of ...