The Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday voted 32-11 in favor of a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to complete a questionnaire. The bill, known as the Statistical Abortion Report...
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Oklahoma lawmakers approve bill requiring pre-abortion questionnaire
Federal judge orders Treasury to show probable cause for charity asset freeze
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France parliament passes resolution against burqa
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Vietnam appeals court upholds activists’ sentences
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Egypt parliament extends state of emergency
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Suu Kyi files final appeal of house arrest extension
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UN rights experts say Arizona immigration law may violate international standards
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Federal judge refuses to drop charges against ex-Guantanamo detainee
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Red Cross confirms secret Bagram prison: BBC
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Argentina ex-secret agent arrested on ‘Dirty War’ abuse charges
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A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on Monday ruled that the US Treasury Department must show probable cause for freezing the assets of an Ohio-based charity...
The French National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Islamic burqa and other full face veils as contrary to gender equality. The resolution passed with 434...
A Vietnamese appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the sentences facing two democracy activists convicted of subversion. The court upheld the sentence of five years imprisonment and three subsequent years of house arrest for prominent human rights lawyer...
The Egyptian Parliament on Tuesday voted to extend the country's state of emergency for two years. Despite the two-year extension, parliament voted to limit the application of the emergency laws only...
Lawyers for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a final appeal in Myanmar's Supreme Court on Monday challenging the 18-month extension of her house arrest. The appeal requests that the court forward her...
A group of UN human rights experts said Monday that Arizona's new immigration law could violate international standards that are binding on the US. The group of six UN experts, which...
A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss criminal charges against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani , despite his lawyers claims that he had been tortured in prison. Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed the existence of a secret detention facility at Bagram Air Base , according to a Tuesday BBC News report . The BBC reported...
Argentine authorities on Monday arrested former secret service agent Miguel Angel Furci on charges of human rights abuses committed during the nation's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . Furci, a former agent of the Secretariat of State...
