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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.

Seven countries still apply the death penalty against homosexuals. Another 75 criminalize same-sex relations. It’s time to do something about these state-sanctioned acts of hate and destruction.

First a lawyer in the dock. Now a missing judge. The strange gets stranger at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

In Kenya, secret government edicts ensure that millions face discrimination when they try to secure access to nationality and basic rights. But a new case before the High Court in Mombasa is chipping away at the practice.

Like Sudan's Bashir before him, Libya's Qaddafi will now have to contend with a possible International Criminal Court investigation.

In another unexpected detour at the Charles Taylor war-crimes trial, the Liberian president's own counsel faces disciplinary charges.

In an unprecedented decision, a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has convicted four military officers on charges of rape and terrorism as crimes against humanity.

Although the war-crimes trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui has received scant attention so far, it represents a major success story for international justice and for victims in the Congo.

The International Criminal Court tries the most notorious war criminals. But it can only handle a finite number of cases, leaving thousands of crimes unpunished. The Fizi rape trial shows how local courts can fill the void.

As a groundbreaking mobile court trial continues in Congo, a community confronts ingrained social stereotypes and the stigma of rape for seemingly the first time.