Twenty-five gay and lesbian couples filed two lawsuits on Wednesday against Illinois Governor Pat Quinn challenging the constitutionality of the state's same-sex marriage ban. The lawsuits are supported by the American Civil Liberties...
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Iraq's human rights situation remains fragile , the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) reported Wednesday. Iraq is currently transitioning from a decade-long dictatorship and its underlying armed conflict and violence to a peaceful...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for stricter regulations on abortions and Caesarean births in Turkey, a Turkish television network reported Tuesday. Among his desired reforms are restricting the reasons a...
The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that they will hold a special session this Friday to discuss the situation in Syria in light of last week's massacre ...
The two sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak are being charged with stock market fraud, the public prosecutor's office said Wednesday. Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, along with seven others, are accused of...
A Bangkok criminal court on Wednesday sentenced Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster of independent Internet news site Prachatai , to an eight-month suspended sentence for failing to delete defamatory comments against Thailand's royal family. She was initially sentenced to one...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday signed a bill authorizing the creation of an independent human rights commission in Pakistan. The new committee will be authorized to investigate human rights violations in the country...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for war crimes committed during the decade-long civil war...
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday ruled that the pre-trial chamber did not err in ruling that there is not enough evidence to try Rwandan rebel leader Callixte...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank that debtors are not entitled to a "cramdown" plan including the sale of collateral that avoids a bank's...
