The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) requested that the US government, high-level politicians and public officials "unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the...

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens issued a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 after being convicted of the first-degree murder...

Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong confessed at a trial on Tuesday to attempting to overthrow the Chinese government. Jiang has been in custody since November of last year. At the trial, he stated that Western laws led...

The Supreme Court of India ruled Tuesday that Islam's instant divorce law, which allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying the word "talaq" three times, was unconstitutional. The case was heard by five judges...

The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit health insurance plans from providing coverage for elective abortions. An elective abortion is defined as one in which the mother is not in danger of...

Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) created a Commission for Truth, Justice and Public Legitimacy on Tuesday. The ANC is tasked with rewriting Venezuela's constitution. The ANC has previously passed a decree which declared that...

The US House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday regarding sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, with a vote of 419-3. The sanctions against Iran are for the country's ballistic missile program, terrorism related...

The Texas Senate voted Tuesday to advance SB 3 , which has been referred to as the "bathroom bill." The bill requires persons using multi-occupancy restrooms, showers and changing facilities in a political subdivision,...

On Saturday, Venezuela's opposition party, Unidad Democratica , made a call for a 48-hour general strike to be held next Wednesday and Thursday. The strike comes in response to President Nicolas Maduro's call...

On Saturday, Poland's upper house of parliament, the Senate , passed a law that would give the government control over the Supreme Court. The law still needs to be approved by President Andrzej Duda...