A group of five UN Human Right's experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a "continuing pattern of death sentences handed out on the...
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Hussein told the World Economic Forum on Friday that "companies that take action to end discrimination and support LGBTI communities can be a motor for change." Zeid...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday halted the planned execution of Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison. Vernon Madison was convicted in Alabama of murdering a police officer in 1985. He was scheduled...
The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former acting secretary Elaine Costanzo Duke and current secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after the Trump administration revoked the Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...
A federal judge granted a request to acquit Senator Bob Menendez and his friend Salomon Melgen Wednesday on several charges in a bribery case that ended in a mistrial . The democratic senator from New Jersey was...
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Mexico's National Workers Union (MNWU) filed a complaint with the US National Administrative Office (NAO) Thursday claiming that Mexico is preparing...
Critics of the government in Azerbaijan have been arrested under suspicious circumstances and convicted this month on politically-motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Gozel Bayramli, a member of the opposition party, Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, and Afgan...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed an executive order mandating internet providers comply with net neutrality. The order makes New York the second state after Montana to update their procurement procedures to require...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the deadly Mosque attack in eastern Benghazi that left 34 people dead and 90 wounded, the majority of whom were male civilians including three young children. According to a...
Three organizations representing 15 Kentucky Medicaid recipients filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration, Department of Health and Human Services , Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and others over...
