The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Cecilia Jimenez-Damary on Thursday sharply condemned bombings in Nigeria as a means of counter insurgency against Boko Haram. The bombings struck a camp housing IDPs, and initial reports from the government indicated that as many as 50 people had been killed and [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that the Department of Defense must release a cache of photos taken at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. The court ruled against Defense Secretary Ash Carter, with the judge stating , “my complaint is that [...]

A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday upheld the firing of corrections officer Linda Tisby, who was terminated for wearing a hijab to work as an expression of her religious beliefs. Tissuey, who had worked for the jail for 13 years, argued that her beliefs required her to wear the religious headscarf while she was [...]

Seventy-seven advocacy groups penned a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking for transparency in the social media website’s censorship of speech. The groups are concerned with Facebook’s censorship of people of color’s posts, mainly regarding political speech and law enforcement. The letter was backed by 77 different groups, including the American Civil Liberties [...]

The US Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Oracle America, Inc. on Tuesday alleging the leading technology company has a systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their counterparts in the same job title, leading to pay discrimination against female, African American and Asian employees. An additional allegation also claims that the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday struck down Chicago restrictions on gun ranges throughout the city. The Chicago ordinances barred anyone under the age of 18 from entering a gun range, created zoning rules that “prohibited gun ranges within 500 feet” of schools and churches, and restricted gun ranges to [...]

The European Commission (EC) on Thursday welcomed an agreement between Amazon and Apple to eliminate their exclusivity obligations with respect to the supply and distribution of audiobooks. These exclusivity rights required Apple to source only from Amazon’s audible unit and prevented Amazon from distributing any music platform other than Apple’s iTunes store. Under this agreement [...]

The Russian Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that Russia does not have to comply with a 2014 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) order to pay 1.9 billion Euros to former shareholders of Yukos, an oil company that was nationalized by the Russian government more than a decade ago. The court found that the ECHR ruling [...]

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced Liao Yongyuan, the former general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) , to 15 years for graft, finding corruption based on accepting bribes and holding large amounts of property with no identified source. The court also fined Liao 1.5 million yuan, approximately USD $220,000. Through various positions at [...]

The Jordanian government arrested eight activists last week, charging them with “insulting the King” and “incitement to spread chaos to undermine the political regime of Jordan using social media” as late as Tuesday. Those arrested include retired, top military and intelligence officials. Lawyers say that they have been unable to reach their clients, who will [...]