A UN panel of experts said in a report released Monday that the Sri Lankan government and rebel forces may have committed war crimes during the final stages of the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
Sponsors of Proposition 8 , California's same-sex marriage ban, on Monday filed a motion to vacate in US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , arguing that the judge who struck down the marriage...
A Montana judge has dismissed a lawsuit that had called for the state to provide legal status to same-sex relationships. The lawsuit, filed in July by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in...
A judge for Wisconsin's Dane County Circuit Court Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that had challenged a controversial state bill limiting the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. Judge Maryann Sumi ruled...
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 69-19 Thursday to approve a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, except in cases where the mother's life is...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ruled 10-6 that it lacks jurisdiction in a case to determine whether Russia committed human rights abuses following the secession of two areas of...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Wal-Mart v. Dukes , a gender discrimination class action lawsuit estimated to include more than 1.5 million womenthe...
An adviser for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday announced that the government would consider lifting the country's 48-year-old state of emergency law and would work to better protect citizens' human rights. Presidential spokesperson Buthaina Shaaban...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri on whether state and local government employees may sue their...
General Counsel for the US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday urged Congress to allow civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees, in addition to military commissions. At a hearing before the House...
