Turkey lifted its ban on women wearing traditional Islamic headscarves in public institutions on Tuesday. The official lifting of the ban occurred just eight days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
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UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez on Monday urged the US to immediately end the solitary confinement imposed in 1972 on a former Black Panther. Albert Woodfox was serving a prison sentence...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Francois Crepeau urged the EU on Monday to adopt a new approach to migration that focuses on the rights of migrants. The discussion was centered...
The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Monday annulled results from the first round of presidential elections and called for a new election before October 20. A probe of the September 7 voters list found irregularities [Haveeru...
A group of 130 African organizations on Monday published a letter urging African members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to declare their support for the court at the upcoming African Union...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Madigan v. Levin the court was asked to decide whether age discrimination claimants can circumvent the Age Discrimination...
Japan's Kyoto District Court on Monday ordered a group of activists to pay 12 million yen (USD $120,000) to a Korean elementary school for holding anti-Korean demonstrations that disrupted classes and frightened children. The rallies took place between December...
Four Saudi Arabian women became the first female lawyers to receive legal licenses Sunday, permitting the women to practice law for five years. Women with law degrees had been able to work as legal consultants but were banned from...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood filed a lawsuit Monday appealing a court verdict ordering the interim government to seize the group's assets. The decision by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters handed down September...
The investigation into allegations that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy exploited L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating illicit election campaign funds has been dropped, according to Monday reports. Bettencourt's accountant...
