Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the country has requested that Britain take action against a former party leader who delivered a speech last week that ignited rioting in Karachi. Pakistan’s Interior Ministry sent a report on Altaf Hussain to British authorities on Tuesday, alleging that the self-exiled party leader had incited violence and disturbed [...]

A federal judge in Kansas dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday by a convicted killer who accused a county jail and its administrators of violating his religious rights. Inmate Eddie Gordon Sr. stated in 2014 in his handwritten lawsuit that he wasn’t fed for 28 hours during Ramadan. Gordon also stated that on numerous occasions he [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities released a statement Tuesday that women with disabilities face discrimination and are often excluded from freely participating in society. The statement, aimed at member states that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , urged empowerment for women with disabilities, so [...]

Three German organizations, Campact, foodwatch and Mehr Demokratie submitted a complaint against the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agrement (CETA) Wednesday to the Federal Constitutional Court . With more than 125,000 signatures, the activists claim the complaint to be the largest public suit in the nation’s history. CETA is designed to eliminate tariffs and foster investments. [...]

The Egyptian Parliament on Tuesday passed a new law regulating church building, purportedly to support the nation’s Christian minority. Church building has long been contentious in Egypt, where only a tenth of the nation’s population of 90 million practices Christianity. Hardliners in the majority Muslim country traditionally oppose church building as a threat to what [...]

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday granted clemency to 111 non-violent criminal offenders, including 35 federal offenders serving life sentences. These new grants of clemency bring Obama’s total to 673, including 325 in the month of August alone. Mostly drug offenders, the commuted sentences are part of Obama’s ongoing effort to reduce the size of [...]

The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the definition of “parent” under a section of the state’s Domestic Relations Law should be expanded, in a decision that will serve to better accommodate same-sex couples. Because the previous legal definition of a parent “has become unworkable when applied to increasingly varied familial relationships,” the [...]

Iraqi militias are recruiting children from at least one civilian camp of displaced persons in the region of Kurdistan, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday. Witnesses reported that at least seven children were recruited as fighters on August 14 to combat the Islamic State (IS) forces. The Iraqi Security Forces are preparing to [...]

Palestinian authorities are violating free speech rights by arresting and abusing dissenting activists and journalists,Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. The report details five cases in Gaza and the West Bank where journalists and activists were arrested or detained by authorities due to their peaceful criticism of authorities. Activists also suggest that court proceedings are [...]

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Tuesday denied the final appeal of Mir Quasem Ali, an opposition leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, and upheld his death sentence. Ali was sentenced to death in 2014 by the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh (ICTB) for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during during the Bangladesh war [...]