Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the US to become a state party to the Mine Ban Treaty , repeating a plea made in March . The call was prompted by the release...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her concern over Iran's crackdown on human rights defenders. Pillay expressed particular concern for Nasrin Sotoudeh, the human rights lawyer who has been conducting hunger...
Thirty-three Republican senators filed an amicus curiae brief on Thursday supporting state attorneys general in their legal effort to have the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590 materials; JURIST news...
The UK government on Tuesday announced a settlement with 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees over allegations of torture. Details of the settlement agreement, which are legally bound to a confidentiality agreement, have not been released, although at...
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) on Friday accused former Cabinet minster William Ruto of interfering with the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into the 2007 post-election violence , denying accusations...
The high court of Mombasa ruled Tuesday that Kenya does not have jurisdiction outside of its national waters, releasing nine suspected Somali pirates . Citing the repeal of Chapter VIII, section 69 of the Kenyan penal code...
Washington state voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to institute an income tax, with over 65 percent of the electorate voting against the initiative. Initiative 1098 endeavored to establish a tax on those with...
The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles on Tuesday cancelled an order refusing a residency permit to Agathe Habyarimana, widow of assasinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , ordering that her application be reconsidered. The reconsideration gives...
A spokesperson for China's Municipal Higher People's Court on Friday criticized those responsible for granting the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo . Liu, who was awarded the 2010 Peace Prize [JURIST...
A group of Spanish police officers went on trial Tuesday for the alleged torture of two ETA activists in Basque. The alleged victims, Igor Portu and Mattin Sarasola, were convicted and sentenced to 1,040...
