A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado on Monday ruled that a challenge to the Colorado Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) can proceed. The lawsuit argues that TABOR is unconstitutional [Denver Post...
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The Supreme Court of India ruled Monday that the ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez may be dismantled at the country's biggest scrapyard. The two-judge panel headed by Altamas Kabir overruled [Bloomberg...
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of the Interior announced Monday that a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who had completed the country's militant rehabilitation program surrendered to Saudi authorities. Adnan al-Sayegh, who was placed in the Ministry's rehabilitation...
The UK High Court in London on Monday denied an application for bail by Muslim cleric Abu Qatada . Qatada had challenged a previous ruling that had denied him bail on...
Complaints about violations committed by Mexico's military forces have been on the rise, a report issued by the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego (TBI) said on Monday. The report alleges that Mexican...
Malian soldiers loyal to the country's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, have been committing human rights violations, including torture, extra-judicial killings, and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report on Tuesday....
Indian authorities and Maoist rebel groups have threatened and attacked civil society activists thereby interfering with the human rights work in the area of central and eastern India, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported [text, PDF; press release...
The European Commission on Tuesday stated that Visa Europe, a subsidiary of Visa, Inc. , has breached EU antitrust laws. Visa Europe imposes multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) that retailers must pay for accepting...
The US Department of State (DOS) on Monday released its annual International Religious Freedom Report documenting threats to religious freedom throughout the world. The report documents current international threats to religious freedom—particularly laws that punish religious...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , Cambodia's UN-supported war crimes tribunal, announced Monday that it has appointed a US judge to investigate two new Khmer Rouge cases, strongly opposed by...
