The Guatemalan Supreme Court ruled on Monday that legislators will review a request to lift President Jimmy Morales's immunity from prosecution amid mounting evidence of illegal political financing. According to prosecutors, Morales's 2015 presidential campaign...
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Kem Sokha, head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was charged Tuesday with treason after his arrest on Sunday. The arrest of Sokha was first announced by his daughter on social media. Sokha and others were...
Colombia's government signed a peace agreement with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Ecuador on Monday, two days before Pope Francis's visit to the country. In a speech on Monday, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos ,...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday ruled 11-6 that unrestricted monitoring of an employee's communication by his or her employer constitutes a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article...
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Tuesday announced a settlement with Buffalo City School District to halt discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in the district. The...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday announced the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, known as Dreamers,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein appealed to the international community Tuesday to conduct an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen, after a...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Kenya's Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Friday to invalidate the recent presidential election. UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Thursday expressed grave concern for...
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order Thursday, blocking Texas officials from enforcing a ban...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order Thursday, blocking Texas officials from enforcing a ban on the most common second trimester abortion procedure. The...
