The US House of Representatives voted Thursday and found US Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for failing to fully comply with subpoenas issued in regards to a failed gun trafficking...
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The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday rejected the request to restore the citizenship of John Demjanjuk , a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of being an accessory to over 28,000 murders as...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged Sudan authorities to take measures to prevent violence against protesters in demonstrations planned for Friday. In a statement, Pillay said the government should instruct...
The UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) ruled that the UN Ethics Office has failed to protect the basic rights of a former UN employee, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. James Wasserstrom, a US diplomat and...
Three UN Special Rapporteurs on Thursday condemned Iran for recently executing four members of the Ahwazi Arab minority. Three brothers, Abd al-Rahman Heidarian, Taha Heidarian and Jamshid Heidarian, along with Ali Sharifi, were executed ...
The Quebec Superior Court on Wednesday rejected a request to suspend parts of an emergency law that restricts spontaneous protests until the law's constitutionality is determined later this summer. Judge Francois Rolland...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 that a law criminalizing the making of false claims of military honors violates the First Amendment . In United States v. Alvarez , the Court struck...
An abortion clinic in Mississippi on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging a new abortion regulation that is scheduled to go into...
UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Patricia O'Brien said Wednesday at the 55th Annual meeting of the Russian Association of International Law that "rule of law is key to the implementation of R2P and hence, to...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Dakota on Thursday upheld an injunction against most of a controversial South Dakota abortion law but allowed one section, requiring doctors to...
