Senior UN officials on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and called for an investigation into his murder. Chebeya was found dead in his car...
UN rights experts on Thursday called on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate findings from a report released earlier this year detailing the secret imprisonment of terrorism suspects by...
A report released Tuesday by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) details continued widespread racial discrimination in jury selection in Southern states. EJI conducted research in eight southern states over a two-year period and found that...
A civil judge and court clerk were shot and killed in a central Brussels courtroom on Thursday by a man attending the morning's hearings. Police were searching for the shooter who fled the courtroom, but may have been injured...
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed additional charges against four members of the "Christian warrior" militia, Hutaree , alleging possession of machine guns and unregistered rifles, as well as use of firearms during a...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday condemned Israel's weekend raid on aid ships bound for the blockaded Gaza strip and initiated an independent investigation into possible violations of international law. The resolution was...
Members of the Quebec National Assembly on Wednesday introduced Bill 103 aimed at tightening the province's language laws. The bill seeks to limit the number of students attending English language schools by increasing fines on schools...
Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP) on Tuesday asked the country's high court to declare the recently approved changes to Spain's abortion laws unconstitutional. Under the new law, abortions performed in...
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned the recent execution of 18 people in Libya . The executed were charged with pre-meditated murder and several were foreign nationals from Chad, Egypt, and Nigeria. AI...
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the right to limit protests around military funerals in the case of Snyder v. Phelps . The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST...
