In a statement celebrating World Leprosy Day, a newly appointed UN human rights expert specializing in leprosy warned that people with the disease continue to face discrimination and lack of access to medical care. Latest statistics show that...
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center , and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP filed a class action suit [complaint,...
The European Court of Justice on Thursday dismissed Austrian attorney Max Schrems' class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook, ruling that Schrems can sue Facebook in his home country as an individual. Schrems has continually campaigned against Facebook's...
The European Court of Justice on Thursday struck down a sexual orientation test used to consider asylum seekers' applications but upheld the use of experts to determine credibility of claims made in the application. The case arose...
A Brazilian federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld former president and current presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's corruption conviction, which could prevent him from continuing his election campaign. Lula was convicted in July on several corruption...
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Department of Defense must give the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 72 hours notice before transferring an American detained abroad in order to allow for a legal...
The president and first vice president of the European Commission expressed concern Wednesday about Romania's progress promoting the rule of law. The comments represent the Commission's reaction to the most recent report of the Co-Operation and...
The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to eliminate special elections when there is a vacancy in the US Senate. Under HB 17 , when a vacancy occurred the governor would appoint a...
The FBI released preliminary statistics Tuesday outlining US crime metrics from January through June 2017, which indicated a downward trend in violent crime and rise in the homicide rate. In the first half of 2017 the violent...
A newly declassified investigation has revealed that the US military knew about at least 75 reported human rights abuses by Afghan military and police but used a legal loophole to keep funding the Afghan units. These human rights abuses included...
