The UN Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution extending the mission of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) in Syria. The panel of independent experts is charged with investigating...
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Drug trafficking and violent crime in Central America and the Caribbean threaten the rule of law in those regions, according to a report released Thursday by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [official...
Lawyers for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Thursday announced the state's plan to appeal a preliminary injunction currently blocking the provision of the controversial Arizona immigration law that criminalizes the harboring and transportation of...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday urged the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop delegating federal immigration authority to state and local law enforcement agencies, claiming...
The Arkansas Supreme Court announced Thursday that it would allow a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana on the November ballot. The decision came as part of a lawsuit brought by the...
A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled that three Congolese witnesses who testified in an International Criminal Court (ICC) case against militia leader Germain Katanga must be allowed to remain in the Netherlands...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Thursday for the Guinean government to further its support for the prosecution of crimes originating from a 2009 massacre. On the eve of the three-year anniversary of the massacre, HRW published a...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday heard oral arguments in a challenge to the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that defines marriage...
Police in Slovakia announced on Thursday that they have launched an investigation of a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of war crimes in connection with the Holocaust. Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Hungary in July on allegations of abusing and...
An actress who claims she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in the Middle East filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday requesting that...
