A Brazilian judge for the Federal Court of the First Region ruled on Thursday that work on a dam being constructed on the Xingu River in the Amazon jungle must cease. The...
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas denied an injunction on Thursday against a Kansas law that prohibits insurance companies from including coverage for abortion [JURIST news...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday acquitted two former Rwandan ministers, Casimir Bizimungu and Jerome Bicamumpaka, of genocide charges due to a lack of sufficient evidence. This decision is the most high-profile...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously vacated a district court ruling that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) was a violation of...
A CIA drone strike in Yemen on Friday killed senior al Qaeda leader, US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki . The strike marks the US government's most successful attack against al Qaeda since the raid...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Wednesdayaffirmed the convictions of ex-army officer Ephrem Setako and former businessman Yussuf Munyakazi on charges stemming from the 1994 Rwandan genocide...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , along with several other rights groups and physicians, filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a North Carolina law that requires abortion providers to show women ultrasounds...
A special security court in Bahrain on Thursday sentenced one anti-government protester to death for killing a police officer, and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical personnel, including doctors, for providing treatment to injured protesters during...
Two rights organizations filed an indictment against former US president George W Bush with the Canada Department of Justice on Thursday accusing him of commissioning a torture program during his...
Lithuania must reopen the investigation into secret CIA prisons in light of new evidence, Amnesty International (AI) insisted Thursday. AI cited evidence of rendition flights of Abu Zubaydah [NYT profile; JURIST news...
