The Italian Senate , using a confidence motion in parliament on Thursday, voted 173-71 to approve a bill permitting civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual couples. The approved bill...
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A judge for the Vancouver Federal Court ruled Wednesday that medical marijuana patients have a constitutional right to grow their own cannabis, striking down a ban introduced by Canada's previous Conservative government. The case came to...
The Supreme Court of India on Friday refused to intervene in the arrest of left-wing student leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, for sedition. Kumar's arrest triggered demonstrations in universities across the country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act but enjoined the Secretary of Health and Human Services from the enforcing the mandate until...
A top migration official at EU has warned Austria on Thursday not to go ahead with the implementation of its plans to cap the asylum-seeker numbers, stating that any such move would be unlawful. Dimitris Avramopoulos wrote a...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that hostilities in eastern Ukraine have damaged or destroyed hundreds of schools, many of which were being used for military purposes. According to a detailed investigative report , government forces...
A Moroccan judge on Thursday ordered the release of Younis Chekkouri, a former Guantanamo detainee who had remained in custody for nearly five months despite diplomatic assurances that he would be freed after his transfer to the country...
Amnesty International (AI) warned Monday that the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) is insufficiently equipped to handle dangers of instability and deadly violence to civilians in Central African...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement released on Friday urged all concerned countries to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030, calling it a “violent practice" scarring girls for life , endangering their...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday urged nations affected by the Zika virus to review their laws and allow women access to contraceptive devices and abortion . The commissioner reported that...
