A judge for the US District Court Central District of California on Tuesday denied a motion by McGraw-Hill Companies and Standard & Poor's Financial Services (S&P) , a unit of McGraw Hill Financial, to...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar , Tomas Ojea Quintana, on Tuesday commended the Myanmar government for disbanding the Nasaka , a border patrol force that had been operating in Rakhine...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday denied a new trial for former chief executive officer of HealthSouth Richard Scrushy . The decision upheld Scrushy's 2006 conviction of...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced at a press conference Thursday that she will not defend Pennsylvania's statutory ban on same-sex marriage. Title 23, Chapter 11, section 1102 of the Pennsylvania consolidated statutes defines marriage as...
Two French human rights groups filed a lawsuit in Paris Thursday calling for an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM program violated French privacy laws. The lawsuit, filed...
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Wednesday condemned the Nigerian government for the alleged execution of four men in the State of Edo . Heyns voiced his...
The British newspaper The Guardian released two documents Thursday revealing that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was granted the power to make use of information unintentionally gathered from domestic US communications without a warrant....
French and Spanish data protection groups released statements Thursday threatening Google with fines if the company does not change its privacy policies on collecting user data. The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) ...
The government of Myanmar must do more to combat religious and ethnic discrimination against minorities or risk undermining the reform movement according to a statement made by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Wednesday....
A federal judge called Tuesday on members of Congress and the president to give serious consideration to formulating a different approach for the handling of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases. The US Court of Appeals for the District...
