Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi

France lifts ban on gay blood donors

November 4, 2015 12:42:14 pm

The French government on Wednesday lifted the prohibition on blood donations by gay men. French Minister of Social Affairs, Health and Women's Rights Marisol Touraine , announced that...

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Northern Ireland political party blocks passage of same-sex marriage law

Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi

November 3, 2015 07:40:02 am

The Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday filed a petition of concern , effectively blocking the region's fifth attempt at legalizing same-sex marriage. The matter came to a vote Monday morning in the Northern...

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Amnesty urges war crime investigation into Yemen hospital airstrike

Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi

October 28, 2015 01:18:12 pm

Amnesty International (AI) has called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible war crimes surrounding the destruction of a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Yemen. According to local sources, the Saudi-Arabia led...

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Federal judge dismisses challenge to NSA surveillance

Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi

October 27, 2015 07:30:08 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia

On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.

First US wartime conscription law took effect

On April 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the first wartime conscription law passed in the United States went into effect. It included a clause allowing a person to pay $300 to avoid military service, a controversial "rich man's" exception that precipitated the July 1863 New York City Draft Riots.

The riots, the worst in US history to that point, killed as many as 100 people and had to be quelled by troops, some of whom had recently fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Learn more about the Draft Riots.