The Uganda Law Society (ULS) announced Tuesday that lawyers would initiate a three-day strike as a protest against government interference with judicial independence. Uganda's judges are currently on a week-long strike following last week's siege of the...
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The US State Department announced Tuesday that once again the United States will not run for a seat on the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council . The US said...
The North Carolina State Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Medical Board Tuesday, alleging that recent policy changes preventing doctors' participation in lethal injections prevent the corrections department from carrying out...
Italian patient's rights group Associazione Lucacoscioni said Tuesday that prosecutors have cleared anesthesiologist Dr. Mario Riccio, the physician being investigated for assisting in the December death of...
Reporters will not be allowed to attend hearings that will determine if the 14 "high-value" terror suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons last September are "enemy combatants,"...
Native American plaintiffs in the decade-old Indian Trust case have rejected a new $7 billion settlement proposal from the US government but the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee nonetheless says...
The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England has concluded that 55 Guantanamo Bay detainees are eligible for transfer after reviewing the results of a second round of administrative...
US Army Specialist Agustin Aguayo was convicted of desertion Tuesday for fleeing a base in Germany to avoid redeployment to Iraq. Though the conviction could have carried as many as seven years in prison, Aguayo was only...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday criticized the poor human rights records of several US allies and denounced the genocide in Darfur while announcing the publication of the...
The US state of Washington has filed a claim against the federal Department of Health and Human Services challenging a regulation that restricts access to Medicaid benefits for infants born to immigrants...
