A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Obama administration's request to narrow an injunction banning the enforcement of an Education Department policy requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that...
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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report Tuesday finding that the July attack on a peaceful demonstration in the nation's capital directly targeted civilians. The report focuses on the "planning and preparedness" of security forces...
Iraqi government and paramilitary forces are committing serious human rights abuses and war crimes, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report Tuesday. AI claims that both the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government...
Burundi's vote last week to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) elicited concern from The Hague on Tuesday. President of the ICC's governing body Sidiki Kaba stated that such a withdrawal "represent a setback in the...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 50 other interest groups, sent a letter on Tuesday urging the US Department of Justice to investigate...
The Venezuela Supreme Tribunal of Justice ruled on Monday that a referendum to unseat President Nicolas Maduro will require his opponents to collect signatures from 20 percent of voters in each of...
A Croatian prosecutor on Tuesday charged eight ex-Yugoslav military officers, including commander Borislav Djukic, with war crimes perpetrated during the Croatian War of Independence . Croatia split from the former Yugoslavia in 1991, and the nations...
An administrative court in Lille, France, on Tuesday rejected requests from almost a dozen aid groups and permitted the closure process of the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais to continue. President François Hollande ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia on Monday filed a lawsuit against two officials in Georgia seeking an extension of the voting registration deadline . The lawsuit comes after Hurricane Matthew affected many coastal...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a class-action lawsuit Monday regarding children's education in relation to the Flint water crisis. The plaintiffs include 15 Flint families who allege that the Michigan...
