A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colombia dismissed two lawsuits against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Tuesday for their alleged negligence in their conduct surrounding the 2015...
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Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday detailing the violence carried out by the Ethiopian security forces during the Irreecha festival, the annual harvest celebration observed by the country's ethnic Oromo people. According to the...
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in a national address on Tuesday condemned human rights violations in the nation's state of Rakhine, without addressing accusations from the UN and rights groups concerning the country's campaign...
The US Senate on Monday voted 89-8 to approve HR 2810 , a $700 billion defense bill, authorizing support for defense programs and combat operations at home and overseas. Among other things, the bill authorizes...
The Moscow Meshchansky court rejected a lawsuit Monday filed by a relative of Raoul Wallenberg, seeking to access uncensored documents concerning Wallenberg's death in Soviet captivity. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who is said to have rescued...
Recent Ohio arrestee Timothy Davis filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court on Sunday alleging Columbus, Ohio, police used excessive force to detain him in a convenience store. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for...
Jared Genser, lawyer for detained Baquer and Siamak Namazi, on Monday released the opinion from the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention , which concluded that Iran was illegally detaining the father and son without legitimate reason....
Indian officials in Delhi indicated Monday that they have not received any data from China for the Brahmaputra river this monsoon season, in violation of an agreement signed between the two countries in 2013. The Brahmaputra River, beginning in...
Iraq's Federal Supreme Court on Monday temporarily suspended the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) independence referendum vote that was set to take place September 25. The move follows [JURIST...
Six immigrants filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) , arguing that the Trump administration did not follow proper administrative procedure....
