Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report on Wednesday condemning Australia and Papua New Guinea's (PNG) failure to protect the refugees in their borders from physical violence. According to HRW, approximately 770 refugees in PNG have...
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The Council of European's Committee of Ministers on Wednesday issued an interim resolution formally notifying Azerbaijan that it must release opposition political leader Ilgar Mammadov or face legal action. Mammadov was arrested on February...
Turkey's 35th Heavy Penal Court in Istanbul on Wednesday released eight of the eleven Amnesty International (AI) human rights activists on bail pending trial for charges related to assisting the terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)...
The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction to require the Trump administration to continue to pay insurance subsidies necessary for the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
The Supreme Court of Virginia agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal filed by an advocacy group that challenges a decision from earlier this year that upheld the constitutionality of 11 state...
The Iowa Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a law that enacted a 72-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion. The bill was passed in the Iowa house in April and signed...
A bipartisan group of US senators introduced the USA Rights Act on Tuesday that would overhaul aspects of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless internet surveillance program. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which...
The Supreme Court of Kenya ruled Wednesday that it was unable to hear a case in which the petitioners are seeking to delay the upcoming presidential election. The court was unable to hear the...
The US Senate on Tuesday approved HJ Res 111 , which cancels a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule related to arbitration agreements. The canceled CFPB rule, 82 FR 33210 , prevented providers of...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ruled 6-3 that a 17-year-old unidentified, undocumented immigrant has the right to obtain an abortion. A week earlier, the same court through a...
