UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Rashida Manjoo called Tuesday on the US government to reevaluate its domestic violence policies . The request comes in response to a report ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a complaint in federal court seeking to block a new Louisiana law that limits Internet use for registered...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday urged lawmakers to enhance a controversial anti-terror law by removing provisions that deter authorities from using the law. The Human Security Act (HSA) , signed in 2007...
The Michigan House of Representatives on Monday introduced a bill that would ban Sharia law and other laws deemed "foreign." The bill, introduced by Representative Dave Agema (R), seeks to limit the enforcement...
Sixteen Hungarian churches have appealed to the country's Constitutional Court seeking to block a controversial church law that purportedly violates the separation of church and state. The "Law on the Right to Freedom of Conscience...
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens filed an appeal Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit seeking to overturn a recent injunction of a controversial immigration law [HB...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday reinstated a lawsuit filed by an African American firefighter claiming the firefighter promotion exams used in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, are discriminatory....
Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called on Egyptian authorities to drop charges against a female blogger accused of insulting Egyptian armed forces and inciting the use of violence on Twitter . Asmaa Mahfouz, 26,...
An Arkansas judge on Monday ruled that part of the state's law governing executions is unconstitutional. The provision in state law allowing "any other chemical or chemicals" to be used for lethal injections violates the constitution's protection...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused all parties to Somalia's ongoing armed conflict of engaging in rights violations and urged the parties to immediately end abuses against citizens. In a report entitled "You Don't...
