Amnesty International (AI) called for police restraint on Wednesday to protect protesters’ rights in Venezuela. Protests continue in the country against President Nicolas Maduro , and hundreds of thousands of people held rival protests on Wednesday amid rising political tensions in the country. It was reported that Venezuelan police fired tear gas at the anti-government [...]

Advocacy groups from around the world signed a joint statement on Thursday that called for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. The release of the petition aligned with the third anniversary of U Win Tin’s death, a political prisoner in Myanmar for close to 20 years. The 22 rights groups that signed the [...]

The International Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected Ukraine’s request for measures to prevent rebels in the country from receiving supplies over its Russian boarder. The court granted measures designed to protect ethnic discrimination in the disputed Crimean peninsula, currently under Russian rule, but did not grant Ukraine’s request to prevent the funding of terrorism [...]

Eugene Owusu , the top United Nations humanitarian official in South Sudan on Wednesday warned that without peace in South Sudan humanitarian conditions will continue to deteriorate. Speaking to reporters, Owusu urged that women in Sudan face a daily risk of sexual assault and rape. Owusu also warned of famine, homelessness and violence. He stated, [...]

The Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the September 2016 Court of the Judiciary decision to suspend Chief Justice Roy Moore for violation of the Canons of Judicial Ethics by issuing orders contradicting the US Supreme Court’s recognition of same-sex marriage. In January, 2015, federal judge Callie Garande issued an order ruling that Alabama’s statutory [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Weaver v. Massachusetts and Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer . In Weaver v. Massachusetts , the court considered arguments on whether a defendant who is claiming ineffective assistance of counsel due to a structural error must show the they were prejudiced by [...]

A lawsuit was filed against Bose Corp. Tuesday claiming that the sound system manufacturer was illegally mining and distributing headphone users’ personal data. The complaint alleges that Bose secretly collected, transmitted, and disclosed its customers’ private music and audio selections to third parties and demands restitution in excess of $5,000,000. The suit centers around the [...]

Philippine Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called for an investigation Wednesday into allegations made by senior officials in the Philippine National Police that officers have been offered cash rewards to execute individuals who are suspected of illegal drug activity. More than 9,000 people have died since President Duterte took office last June and the two anonymous officials [...]

The US Supreme Court held on Wednesday that a defendant wishing to appeal a restitution order must file a separate motion from the notice of appeal for the judgment. The ruling came from Manrique v. United States . In June 2014 Manrique was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment and a life term of supervised release. [...]

US President Donald Trump signed the Presidential Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American on Tuesday. The order requires executive agencies to monitor and enforce Buy American Laws, which are defined as all laws that “require, or provide a preference for, the purchase or acquisition of goods, products, or materials produced in the United [...]