Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was fined $2,000 on Wednesday for contempt of court after a hearing in Kiev. The judge assessed the fine after the hearing, which was being...
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The US Senate voted 78-22 on Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which expired in 2011. Last year the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that Israel violated of the laws of war with at least 18 airstrikes launched during the November 2012 fighting in Gaza . HRW stated that the airstrikes...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay unveiled a report Wednesday criticizing Sri Lanka for failing to investigate widespread reports of killings and other atrocities during the latter days of the nation's 26-year civil...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday that the death toll resulting from two years of armed conflict in Syria is approaching 70,000. The conflict and subsequent deaths arose out of a revolt against...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said Yemen authorities failed to investigate top officials in the shooting deaths of 45 anti-government demonstrators killed in the country's "Friday of Dignity Massacre" in March 2011. The report...
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Tuesday for significant alterations to India's new criminal law on violence against women. The new law was signed by President Pranab Mukherjee [official...
The Michigan State AFL-CIO (MIAFLCIO), the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council and other labor groups filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday challenging...
France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved a bill on Tuesday which extends marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples. The bill was approved by a vote of...
Bangladesh's cabinet on Monday approved changes to war crime laws to allow plaintiffs to appeal verdicts delivered by Bangladesh's crimes tribunal. The amendment permits appeals against "inadequate sentence" in war crimes cases. According to Cabinet Secretary Musharraf...
