The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard arguments on Wednesday in a case challenging the US' authority to detain suspected terrorists indefintely. The law would allow authorities to detain certain suspects indefinitely if they...
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday that significant progress has been made in ending the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) but called upon the international community to...
A Moscow City Court on Wednesday denied an appeal by Russian feminist rock group Pussy Riot , continuing a ban on the group's videos from the Internet. The court deemed ...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Wednesday that sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole is unconstitutional. Judge John Corbett O'Meara found that last year's Supreme...
Retired Michigan Supreme Court justice Diane Hathaway pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony bank fraud as part of a plea agreement . The charges arose from Hathaway deeding her home in Florida to a...
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai on Wednesday urged the UK to review certain legal and policing policies that negatively affect the right to peaceably assemble. The...
The Congress of the Philippines on Thursday approved a bill on its second reading allocating 10 billion pesos (USD $246 million) for the victims of human rights abuses committed by the regime of former president Ferdinand Marcos [JURIST news...
The Honduras National Congress on Tuesday approved constitutional reforms to set up an impeachment process . The amendments follow a 2009 coup that removed former...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday struck down an Indiana law that prohibits sex offenders from joining social networking websites, such as Facebook and other websites children are able...
Human rights group Freedom House released a report on Wednesday detailing the state of democracy in the world. The report tracks improvements and declines in the levels of democracy in governments. While Freedom House reports...
