The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for certiorari from Kody Brown and his four wives, famous for their reality television show Sister Wives . They were challenging the constitutionality of a...
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Monday signed a bill into law making Philadelphia the first US city to bar employers from asking applicants about their past salaries. The bill is designed to help decrease...
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,...
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...
In a speech before a meeting of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, a senior UN human rights official said Monday that children around the world face ongoing poverty, violence and discrimination . Kate Gilmore ,...
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported on Tuesday that a violent period in July 2016 left hundreds of civilians dead, along with more than 200 incidents of sexual assault. The report details violence that...
The Lahore High Court on Thursday delayed the execution of former police officer Khizar Hayat until the Pakistan Supreme Court can rule on the case of another mentally ill convict. Hayat's execution is now scheduled for...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced that it had reached an agreement with the city of Baltimore to reform its police department. The consent decree essentially puts the Baltimore Police Department...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other international and local human rights groups on Tuesday asserted that the Pakistan government should investigate whether four missing anti-Taliban activists were abducted by the Taliban. HRW noted that the four...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a ruling Tuesday refusing to exempt two Swiss Muslim students from compulsory mixed sex swimming lessons for religious reasons. The court explained that the...
