The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Wisconsin and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Wisconsin's new voter identification law . The controversial...
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Leaders in the US House and Senate on Monday evening announced that they had reached an agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 after making some modifications and adding text. The bill, which was...
The Myanmar government announced Tuesday that the political party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be allowed to register for the next elections. Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) decided last...
The Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Tuesday ordered that former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Thirith remain in detention . The Trial Chamber found...
Canadian Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, making it the first country to do so. The treaty was signed...
Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was officially chosen Monday to succeed Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo when his nine-year term expires next year. Liechtenstein's UN Ambassador...
Corruption is leading to unequal distribution of land and resources, resulting in human rights violations, according to a working paper published Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Transparency International...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday struck down a Wisconsin law that prohibited people from donating more than $10,000 a year to political action committees (PACs). The case was brought...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday referred the Republic of Malawi to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute for failing to arrest...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday briefed the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria, reiterating her call for a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Pillay...
