Moroccan authorities are interfering with the work of human rights organizations , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. According to HRW, authorities have blocked the Moroccan Human Rights Association (ADMH) from holding...
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The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's right-to-work law , stating it did not violate the state's constitution. The 5-0 decision was from an appeal from the Indiana trial court which declared...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Thursday upheld same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that a change in the traditional definition of marriage as...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Wednesday released a joint recommendation on the obligations of states towards the prevention and...
The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda, said Thursday there is no reasonable basis to continue the investigation of a 2010 raid by the Israeli Defense Forces on flotilla vessels headed for...
Envoys from the US and UK strongly criticized the Egyptian government Wednesday during a session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Remarks by the two nations came during the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review...
Libya's Supreme Court on Thursday declared the UN-backed elected parliament unconstitutional. The ongoing crisis in Libya has created two rival parliaments , one based in the nation's capital Tripoli, and the other, which was declared illegitimate by the...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Yates v. United States the court considered the definition of "tangible objects" in 18 USC § 1519 , a...
St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison ruled Wednesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The St. Louis Circuit judge ruled that the Missouri Constitution violates the equal protection clause of the...
California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 47 , a ballot initiative reducing the penalties associated with certain low-level drug and property crimes, receiving 58 percent voter approval . Under the measure, crimes related to possession of...
