The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday appealed two decisions by the Dane County Circuit Court blocking Wisconsin's new voter identification law . The DOJ filed on behalf of the defendants in...
Violence and rights abuses continue in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. HRW claims that a significant number of civilians are subject to abuses due to the conflict between Myanmar's...
The Pakistani parliamentary national security committee on Tuesday urged the US to stop the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attacks . The relationship between the two countries has suffered since a NATO airstrike in November...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Thursday dismissed a motion to reinstate Saudi Arabia as a defendant in the civil compensation lawsuit by victims and commercial insurers...
A Philippines court on Tuesday issued an arrest order for the husband of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , Jose Miguel Arroyo, on bribery charges. He was accused of accepting bribes to support the $329-million national...
Paulo Pinheiro, chairperson of the UN-appointed Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, on Monday told the UN Human Right Council in Geneva that the number of people suffering from the intensified violence in Syria...
United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron spoke on new plans to reform the nation's adoption process, basing it on speed rather than ethnicity. Currently, white children are three times more likely to be adopted than...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo expressed his support on Thursday for a campaign by Invisible Children to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony [BBC profile; JURIST...
Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein. He is charged with 41 counts of crimes committed in...
Maryland joined the seven states that allow same-sex marriage when Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed the Civil Marriage Protection Act on Thursday. With signing the bill the governor released the...
