The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Uber drivers may not join in a class action suit to pursue employment claims against the transportation company but must resolve their disputes individually. The claims included a host of employment contract issues as well as allegations that the company responsible for conducting [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Nepal of not doing all it could to prevent child marriages as a report detailed at least 37 percent of girls are still being married before age 18. Nepal is considered to have the third highest child marriage rate in Asia with some girls under the age of [...]

A former Guantanamo detainee who was resettled in Uruguay was hospitalized and released on Tuesday after his engagement in a hunger strike left him weak. Following his release from the hospital, Abu Wa’el Dhiab resumed his hunger strike , vowing that he will continue until he is either reunited with his family or dead. Dhiab [...]

President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Wednesday refused to address the EU’s recent findings regarding an anomaly in last week’s presidential election. Following his loss to Bongo in the poll results, opposing candidate Jean Ping questioned the results from Bongo’s home province, Haut-Ogooue, where the voter turnout was 99.93 percent and Bongo received 95 percent of [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday partially granted a tribe’s request to suspend the construction of a North Dakota crude oil pipeline running north of the tribe’s land. In July the Standing Rock Sioux tribe challenged the construction in court, arguing that the pipeline would be built [...]

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Alabama, alleging that the at-large election format for state appellate judges and justices is racially discriminatory . The lawsuit, filed on behalf of four African American voters and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, is seeking the elimination [...]

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 supposed to remain in the first country they enter, but Austria claims Hungary has been breaking this [...]

Zibwabwe’s High Court on Wednesday struck down a ban on protests that had been issued by the police. The two-week ban was issued by police last week after some of the worst public violence in two decades. The court ultimately ruled that the order was invalid as it was given without any authority and violated [...]

Millions of children have been driven from their homes due to violence and conflict, according to a report Wednesday by UNICEF . The report, Uprooted: The growing crisis for refugee and migrant children , found that nearly 50 million children have been uprooted from their homes across the globe. UNICEF detailed many of the dangers [...]

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria urged parties in the Syrian conflict to return to the “negotiation table” after a new report released Tuesday highlighted an increase of violence suffered by civilians. The escalation occurred after the deterioration of a cessation of hostilities agreement reached by the parties in February. The report [...]