A former inmate of the White County Jail, Christel Ward, filed suit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee , Northeastern Division on Thursday claiming that her constitutional rights had been violated when...
The El Salvador Legislative Assembly unanimously voted on Thursday to eliminate a law that allowed men to marry minors that they had impregnated. The legal age to marry in El Salvador was 18 even before...
Mauritania conducted a referendum on Saturday to abolish the senate and to change the national flag. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz applauded the vote and and said the move to abolish the governing body would...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City of Chicago sued the Trump administration Monday to stop the implementation of policies that would withhold federal funds from so-called "sanctuary cities." The complaint claims that the the...
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report on Friday welcoming a program, almost five years in the works, to register undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan. UNHCR estimates that between 600,000...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Friday directing New Jersey school boards to "addres common issues concerning the needs of transgender and LGBTQ students, and to assist schools in establishing policies...
The US Supreme Court closed its 2016 term Monday with orders in several pending cases. The court ordered reargument in Jennings v. Rodrigues , in which the court must determine three issues concerning whether...
The US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss a class-action suit filed against President Donald Trump and the US...
The lower house of the German Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to compensate thousands of individuals who had been persecuted and imprisoned for their sexuality. The law under which the individuals had been convicted...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state government must act as the trustee for public natural resources under the Environmental Rights Amendment. The court ruled that royalties gathered from oil and gas leases on...
