Federal prosecutors arrested seven Baltimore police officers on Wednesday on racketeering charges. The police officers are suspected of conducting illegal stops, stealing money and narcotics from individuals, swearing false affidavits, submitting false incident reports and participating in...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday accused police in the Philippines of falsifying evidence to justify killings in the country's war on drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte has conducted a large scale war on drugs...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) introduced a motion to withdraw in a Texas Federal Court Monday, reversing its previous stance that SB 14 , a Texas voter ID law, was created with an intent to discriminate...
A UN Working Group on Monday concluded that people of African descent in Germany suffer discrimination, profiling and xenophobia on a day to day basis. The report concluded that, "institutional racism and racist stereotyping by the...
On Saturday the newly confirmed head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt announced that they would be rolling back some Obama era regulations as soon as next week. When speaking at the Conservative Political...
On Thursday the Montana House of Representatives introduced HB 536 which would allow homicide charges to be brought against doctors engaged in physician-assisted suicide. This legislation would run against the current policy of the State of...
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales on Tuesday rejected a heterosexual couple's legal challenge to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 , ruling 2-1 that only same-sex couples may enter into civil partnerships. The court's decision gave...
The 2014 trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi failed to meet international fair trial standards, according to a UN report published Tuesday. The UN "closely monitored" the proceedings and conducted individual investigations with integral parties. The report...
The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) released its annual report on Thursday, highlighting intensified crackdowns on human rights defenders in China. According to the CHRD report, human rights activities are being criminalized as "'political'...
Victims of sexual violence in Ukraine are not being provided with adequate access to justice or services in the country, according to a UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report released Thursday....
