UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated there have been 269 verified human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) during his report to the UN Security Council earlier this week. According to the...

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday vacated its prior ruling refusing to recognize same-sex adoption. In its short opinion , the court stated that "the Court of Civil appeals and the Jefferson Family Court erred in...

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that juvenile convicted of first-degree murder may not be sentenced to life without parole. The court reasoned that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole was cruel and...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday that an employer may not coerce an employee to waive his or her right to bring a class action suit. In its decision, the...

More than 2,000 inmates across Zimbabwe were granted amnesty and released from prison due to overcrowding and a lack of food, according to a report Thursday. President Robert Mugabe, who extended the pardon under the Constitution...

South Africa's Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to allow government expropriation of land. The bill will serve to allow a government adjudicator to value a particular piece of land and then expropriate it for...

A US jury concluded that Google was not in violation of copyright laws where it used Oracle's Java programming language to develop its operating system, Android. After the case was remanded in-part by an earlier circuit court decision [decision,...

Dozens of detainees in South Sudan are being held in inhumane conditions, Amnesty International (AI) reported Friday. According to AI, the citizens are currently being held in "poorly ventilated metal shipping containers, fed only once...

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-2 to uphold the state's ban on capital punishment. The decision, which rested upon the court's previous decision against capital punishment, stated once again that allowing...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Thursday signed into law an amended hate crime bill including police, EMS personnel and firefighters in the category of those protected. Proponents of this bill have stated that the...