Amnesty International (AI) published a policy statement on Wednesday calling for the decriminalization of sex workers . Stating that, "ex workers are at heightened risk of a whole host of human rights abuses including rape,...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 on Thursday in Torres v. Lynch that a "state crime counts as an aggravated felony when it corresponds to a specified federal offense in all ways," and that...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Thursday welcomed the measures being taken by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to prevent the use of its drugs in state-sponsored execution by lethal injection. Pfizer announced...
The Beijing Municipal High People's Court ruled on Wednesday that Xintong Tiandi (XT), a local leather goods retailer, can continue to use the phrase "iPhone" on its leather goods. According to the Legal Daily, the official newspaper of the China...
Gary Tyler was released from Louisiana's notorious Angola prison on Saturday after serving 41 years of an unconstitutional life sentence for the death of a white high school student resulting from a racially charged confrontation. Tyler spent eight...
The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) announced its agreement with various state chartered credit unions in Puerto Rico whereby the maturity date of approximately $33 million of notes issued in a limited private...
Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in the Auschwitz death camp between 1942 and 1944, apologized to Nazi victims at his trial in Detmold, a small town in West Germany. Hanning, who is accused of being an accessory...
The North Gauteng High Court in South Africa on Friday ordered that the 2009 decision to discontinue the prosecution of President Jacob Zuma on 783 corruption charges be set aside, and that Zuma and his codefendants...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concerns on Wednesday over the fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel forces, which has caused...
A long-awaited bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide was introduced before the Parliament of Canada on Thursday and is now awaiting passage through the House of Commons and the Senate. This development comes over a year after...
