Ukraine's ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was returned to prison on Sunday after being sent to a clinic Friday for medical treatment. Tymoshenko has refused to be treated by the Ukrainian doctors at her prison for back problems...
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UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya will visit the United States from April 23 to May 4 to launch the UN's first ever investigation into the rights situation of Native Americans. Anaya will...
The Egyptian Constitutional Court announced Saturday that it cannot rule on an act of parliament that banned certain candidates from the upcoming presidential elections . The court said that it is only able to...
Two former cadets from the US Military Academy and the US Naval Academy brought a suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that the service academies failed...
The Mexican legislature passed a sweeping climate change bill on Thursday 128-10 in the Chamber of Deputies and unanimously in the Senate . The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide...
A North Carolina judge on Friday commuted a man's death sentence to a sentence of life in prison without parole after he determined that racial bias was a major influence behind the original sentence 18 years...
The 47 member states composing the Council of Europe on Friday agreed to a declaration that will bring new changes to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in order to make it more...
The High Court of Australia ruled Friday that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot be held liable for the copyright infringement of their customers in the case of Roadshow Films v. iiNet Limited. The court ruled that...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human rights organization committed to finding and prosecuting Holocaust war criminals, called on the government of Hungary to prosecute former Nazi Laszlo Csatary in its annual report [text, PDF; press...
The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday passed changes to the state's immigration law , said to be one of the toughest in the nation. The revised bill, passed 64-34 , comes in response...
