Greece’s Ministry of Justice on Wednesday unveiled plans to introduce legislation giving civil union rights to same-sex couples. This marks the first time in the country’s history that such legislation will be introduced. The bill will give rights to go along with the civil unions such as insurance, taxation, inheritance and other rights enjoyed by [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld some of the strictest parts of a Texas abortion law, which could cause the majority of the state’s abortion clinics to close, leaving only seven open. The decision allows the state to require abortion clinics to satisfy hospital-level operating standards, which include minimum [...]

Syed Mohammed Hasan Ali, a fugitive commander of Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani troops, was sentenced to death on Tuesday by a Bangladeshi court for torture and massacre committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War . Ali was found guilty on five out of six charges and was sentenced to death by Justice [...]

Leaders of the four major political parties in Nepal reached an agreement Monday on key issues for a new constitution, dividing the country into eight federal states. An assembly elected in 2008 was tasked with completing the new constitution by 2010, but never completed a draft due to fighting within the nation. The boundaries for [...]

Lawmakers in Romania rejected a request from prosecutors to strip Prime Minister Victor Ponta of immunity on Tuesday, despite him being named as a suspect last week in an anti-corruption probe. Prosecutors questioned Ponta in connection to charges of forgery, tax evasion and money laundering occurring between 2007 to 2011 and have also directed investigations [...]

An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 11 individuals to death for their involvement in a 2012 soccer riot. The riots, which occurred in Port Said, killed more than 70 and injured about 1,000 others crushed by crowds attempting to leave the stadium when fans of Al-Masry violently stormed the stands and attacked Al-Ahly fans [...]

Ireland’s abortion law threatens the lives of women who choose to remain in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said on Tuesday. Under the country’s abortion law, women are only permitted to undergo abortion proceedings if their lives are at risk. AI contends that the law forces more than 4,000 women and girls to travel outside [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Sarah Lamdan of the CUNY School of Law discusses the urgent need for federal agencies to reform their records management and data preservation and search functions so that they are not crippled by FOIA requests for email account data and other types of Internet generated electronic records that fall under the FOIA… [...]

The families of two Yemeni men who were killed by US drone strikes filed a lawsuit Sunday against the US claiming that the men, Salem bin Ali Jaber and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, were “innocent bystanders” who were wrongfully killed. The lawsuit, which seeks no monetary relief, states that the men were not “likely targets [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Jackson v. San Francisco , a case challenging a San Francisco law requiring gun owners to keep handguns “stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock that has been approved by the California Department of Justice.” Opponents of the law claim that it [...]