Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said Wednesday that Austria will take Hungary to the International Court of Justice if Hungary does not begin accepting returning migrants that crossed into Austria from Hungary. According to EU law, migrants are...
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused Wednesday to halt the military trial of the suspect charged with orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, which killed 17 US...
A group of UN experts on Wednesdayurged authorities in Sudan to drop death penalty charges against six members of the Khartoum Center for Training and Human Development (TRACKS). The members were arrested a few months ago for criminal...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday dismissed a 2014 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case against AT&T Mobile , which took issue with AT&T's disclosures regarding the reduction of...
A UN expert on Monday urged the participants of the upcoming 21st Century Panglong Conference in Myanmar to prioritize human rights in their discussions. Yanghee Lee , the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...
Venezuelan authorities on Saturday arrested a major opposition leader, Daniel Ceballos, stating that the arrest was to prevent his efforts at destabilizing the country . Ceballos, the former mayor of San Cristobal, was arrested in March 2014, accused of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday denied an emergency petition for a full en banc rehearing regarding the Wisconsin voter identification law . A federal court in July decided that...
A United Nations (UN) official on Saturday expressed deep concern for the health of Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian detainee that has been on hunger strike for more than two months . Robert Piper ,...
The United Nations (UN) on Friday said that it is becoming increasingly alarmed by "catastrophic" levels of suffering in Nigeria, as more rights violations are being exposed while the anti-Boko Haram military campaign advances ....
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement this weekend urging Bangladesh officials to immediately end the illegal detentions of two citizens. Ahmed Bin Quasem and Humman Qader Chowdhury...
