Legis­la­tion dat­ing back to 2005 under then-premier Dalton McGuinty is being called a fail­ure Nearly 21 years ago, MPPs across all parties at Queen’s Park pledged to make Ontario com­pletely...

President Trump’s retaliation against top officials at the International Criminal Court has shut them out of American services and made even routine daily tasks a challenge.

For the second time in his life an Ottawa man had a first-degree murder case falter before he ever got to trial because of problems in the management of the prosecutions against him.

Seventeen moderate Republicans defied their party leadership and sided with Democrats to help pass the bill.

Leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church have been arrested and Yayang Church is being torn down, groups say.

More than 2,000 people have also been arrested during the unrest, activists say, which began 10 days ago and has spread to most of Iran's provinces.

It comes after the Supreme Court ruled against his use of troops for domestic law enforcement.

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees during Syria’s long civil war.

Dani­elle Bell has stood at mass graves in East Timor, walked through burned-out vil­lages in Dar­fur, listened to the haunt­ing testi­mon­ies of ISIS sur­viv­ors in Iraq and now vis­its towns in...

Zahra Tabari, 67, was sentenced to death after a trial that lasted less than 10 minutes, her family says.

Two men say they experienced the kind of abuse highlighted in recent reports on Israel's treatment of prisoners, which Israel denies.

At least 347 people have now been put to death this year, according to the UK-based campaign group Reprieve.

Can naming and shaming reduce domestic public support for a government that fails to comply with an international court ruling? While existing research suggests...

Author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflec­tions of a Cana­dian Muslim Woman Ahmed al Ahmed was meet­ing a friend for cof­fee by Sydney’s Bondi Beach when a scene of mass murder unfol­ded before him....

A judge ruled Thursday to remove an injunction in place since the summer against Alberta's law prohibiting doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

Com­plain­ant argued the need for pro­spect­ive law­yers to swear oath to the King viol­ated his reli­gious freedoms Alberta’s top court has ruled that the province’s require­ment for pro­spect­ive...

Assist­ant pro­fessor in crim­inal justice at the Uni­versity of the Fraser Val­ley and a senior con­sult­ant at the Wayamo Found­a­tion Atro­cit­ies in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine raise a ques­tion: do...

Fed­eral changes face back­lash over equity impacts and scant evid­ence that harsher pen­al­ties deter offences The fed­eral gov­ern­ment’s pro­posal to revive man­dat­ory min­imum pun­ish­ments that...

The rights group said it had documented atrocities committed by Palestinian armed groups, including murder, imprisonment, torture and sexual violence.

Austria’s centrist government passed the new law, which takes effect next year, after years of pressure from the far right.