A top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases ...

Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.

More than three decades after the end of apartheid, families of victims of some of the worst crimes of South Africa's past are still fighting for justice. As survivors and perpetrators grow older, a ...

About a dozen detainees with serious medical conditions and pending court cases were told they’ll be deported to Africa, ...

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki denies ordering prosecutors to halt apartheid-era crime cases or making secret ...

It’s a busy Monday afternoon for the world’s newest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who is taking back-to-back press interviews ...

DOJ says it worked with international law enforcement and private companies.

Participants in the Women’s Human Rights Advocacy Training attend the African Commission in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: LWF/P.

Navi Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief and judge on the International Court of Justice, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Judge Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize award on October 9 was a rare bit of very good news. “If you clap a little bit more, I ...

A decade after Cameroon's deadliest rail disaster killed 79 people and injured more than 500, survivors are still living with serious injuries, some compensation remains unpaid and an appeal against ...

Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel ...