A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Thursday blocked part of a new Florida election law that plaintiffs claim restrict voter registration efforts. Judge Robert Hinkle struck down...
Incidents of hate-based murders against LGBT individuals in the US increased in 2011, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) reported Thursday. The annual report, entitled "Hate Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and...
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court ruled on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay insisted on Friday that anyone who engaged in violent acts relating to the April 12 coup d'etat in Guinea-Bissau should be held accountable for their...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the Hungarian government on Friday for ignoring recommendations by the Council of Europe to change its media laws that allegedly curtail press freedom. HRW expressed concern that the...
A senior judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida approved a settlement agreement on Thursday between JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC) and more than one million litigants...
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that California's state pension system must afford same-sex spouses of state workers the same access to long-term care insurance as heterosexual spouses. Judge Claudia Wilken of the US District Court for...
The top UN human rights official urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday to ensure that Zimbabwe's next elections are legitimate and free from violence . UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi...
A court in Bahrain on Thursday sentenced Zainab Al-Khawaja, the daughter of jailed pro-democracy activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to one month in prison for trying to organize an anti-government protest, according to...
Both the Syrian government and anti-government groups are killing opponents, torturing children as young as 10 years old and committing other human rights abuses, a UN-appointed group of human rights experts reported Thursday. The report, issued by...
