A group of UN human rights experts joined Thursday to urge Indonesia to amend a Bill on Mass Organizations that is currently being considered by the legislature. The proposed legislation [UN News Centre...
A federal judge on Thursday accepted the guilty plea of Transocean Deepwater Inc. along with a criminal settlement of $400 million and $1 billion in civil penalties for the company's violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA)...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay unveiled a report Wednesday criticizing Sri Lanka for failing to investigate widespread reports of killings and other atrocities during the latter days of the nation's 26-year civil...
The UN on Wednesday welcomed the activation of a mechanism to simplify the means to report human rights abuses to the international community. The instrument, called the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged the government of Somalia to reopen the case of a reporter and an alleged rape-victim who were both sentenced to a year...
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) , Pakistan's principal agency to combat government corruption, to file a second set of criminal corruption charges against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ....
A collection of human rights groups and free-press advocates issued a joint statement Tuesday calling for the release of a journalist and three others who have been detained in Somalia following one woman's claim...
An Indian government commission published its report Wednesday recommending numerous reforms in the way the nation's legal institutions handle rape cases. The report was created by a panel led by Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma which...
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Tuesday in a case in which an Illinois tax-payer was found to lack standing to sue the state legislature for a $20,000 grant provided to the Bald Knob...
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a recent decision striking down provisions of Alabama's controversial immigration law . Alabama is appealing a decision...
