UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged member states to ratify or accede to the Rome Statute , the treaty that established the International Criminal Court . The Rome Statute was signed...
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Illinois on Wednesday became the sixteenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Pat Quinn signed the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act (Act) . Although the Act allows same-sex couples to marry,...
Voters of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday rejected a proposed ordinance that would have banned all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In a 55 to 45 percent vote, the citizens voted against allowing the...
The Regional Court of Berlin on Tuesday held that 25 of Google's privacy policies and terms of service violate Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) , Germany's data protection law. The case against Google was...
The Kenyan human rights group Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative issued a report on Tuesday, calling on the US and the UK to suspend financial support to...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a statement calling on Yemen's National Dialogue Conference (NDC) to endorse proposed legislation that would strike down a 2012 law providing blanket immunity to...
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that a proposal by the ruling Puea Thai party to amend the constitution to make the nation's senate fully elected is illegal. The court held that Thailand's parliament did not follow...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 5-4 to allow Texas's new abortion law to remain in effect while it is being reviewed by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced that a $13 billion civil settlement with JPMorgan & Co. has been finalized, resolving federal and state claims arising from the...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Monday declassified intelligence documents regarding data collection under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ...
