The North Carolina Legislature on Tuesday approved putting a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage on a statewide ballot to be voted on in May. The Republican-controlled Senate voted 30-16 to place...
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Three authors groups on Monday sued HathiTrust and five universities in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York over the digitizing of millions of copyright-protected books. The...
Both the government of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the newly formed National Transitional Council (NTC) have committed war crimes during the conflict in the country, Amnesty International (AI) reported...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday sent a report to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) accusing Sri Lankan troops of killing tens of thousands of civilians during clashes...
Egyptian protesters' recent attack on the Israeli Embassy has provoked the Egyptian government to reinstate emergency laws with expanded control over political demonstrations and media reporting. Emergency laws will also apply to blocking roads, publishing false information...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Tuesday filed an International Criminal Court (ICC) complaint against Vatican officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, for systematic sexual abuse and subsequent concealment of over 10,000...
The US Court of Military Commission Review on Friday ruled that Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , media secretary of Osama bin Laden , was properly convicted of being...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday heard arguments over whether state courts can consider international lawand in particular, Sharia lawin their decisions. State Question 755 allows state courts to look...
A South African court on Monday found the controversial African National Congress (ANC) Youth League President Julius Malema guilty of hate speech for singing the apartheid-era protest song "Shoot the Boer."...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday said that at least 2,600 people have been killed in Syria in the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the country. During her address to the UN Human...
