Iranian officials covered up the sexual assault of detainees held after the disputed June 12 presidential election , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. HRW documented the rape and sexual assault of three...
US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday giving the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) the authority to report suspected violations of federal law related to intelligence gathering to the US attorney general. The order amends...
A French court on Thursday ruled that a woman cannot recover semen samples donated by her husband prior to his death. The High Court in the Western city of Rennes said that Fabienne Justel could not take ...
The New South Wales Supreme Court on Friday convicted five men were of conspiracy to do acts in preparation of terrorist attacks. The men, who cannot be named publicly due to other ongoing trials, were...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday reiterated her support for the recommendations of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict . In a statement to...
The trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced on Wednesday that the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will begin on October...
The US Deparment of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday rescinded a rule that would have required employers to fire workers whose information did not match Social Security Administration (SSA) records. The American Civil Liberties Union...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that extends the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Matthew Shepard and...
The UN Security Council agreed Wednesday to reschedule October's meeting on the Middle East in order to discuss the final report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict . The meeting...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee was urged Wednesday to adopt measures to address recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act . Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) expressed...
