The Milan Court of Appeals on Friday convicted three Americans for their roles in the 2003 rendition kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Due to diplomatic immunity,...
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A group of UN human rights experts on Friday urged Russian lawmakers to reject proposed legislation banning the dissemination of homosexual "propaganda" to minors. Independent experts joined with UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, human rights...
The Obama administration issued a new rule on Friday detailing a broader exemption to the contraception mandate, allowing for religious nonprofits that object to providing health insurance coverage for birth control to opt out of the...
A police officer in Bahrain has been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for fatally shooting a protester during pro-democracy protests that gripped country in February 2011, according to Bahrain's State News Agency (BNA). Lead...
The UN top women's rights advocate on Friday denounced escalating violence against women in Egypt . Michelle Bachelet , the Executive Director of UN Women expressed particular concern about a recent protest in Tahrir Square in...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is seeking USD $130.4 million in donations to compensate for a budget shortfall that has been ongoing for three years, according to a recent statement ...
The Arkansas Senate approved a bill by a vote of 26-8 on Thursday that would prohibit abortions after the first fetal heartbeat is detected, which could be as early as five weeks into the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Thursday for an investigation into summary executions by Mali forces backed by the French. HRW alleges that the Malian government has summarily executed 13 suspected Islamist supporters and forcibly disappeared...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday rejected a request by Apple to ban sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone based on allegations of willful patent infringements. The Federal Circuit...
A military judge on Thursday ordered the removal of any monitoring system that censors the public broadcast of the 9/11 military commission hearings. The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Colonel James Pohl noted...
