An Istanbul court on Thursday ordered the rearrest of Taner Kılıç, the chairman of the Turkish Chapter of Amnesty International , hours after he was released . Kılıç's rearrest follows an Istanbul trial court's decision on Wednesday to...
Poland's Senate approved a legislation Thursday criminalizing speeches against the national government that suggest the country was responsible for the Holocaust. The legislation, titled "Act on the Institute of National Remembrance -...
Twenty-five children and young citizens of Colombia between the ages of seven and 26 on Monday filed the first ever climate change litigation in Latin America. The plaintiffs, represented by Dejusticia, come from 17 regions classified...
Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Monday announced his Cabinet's approval to hold a referendum on abortion in late May or early June stating the exact date will become clear after a debate and vote in the Dáil...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the deadly Mosque attack in eastern Benghazi that left 34 people dead and 90 wounded, the majority of whom were male civilians including three young children. According to a...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), together with the Abolitionist Law Center , and the law firms of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feiberg & Lin LLP and Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP filed a class action suit [complaint,...
Human Rights Watch released a 134-page report and a 15-minute video on Tuesday at the EU Parliament documenting widespread rights abuses and forced labor conditions in Thailand's fishing fleets. Titled "Hidden Chains: Forced Labor and...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Department of Justice's (DOJ) motion to expedite consideration of a petition for direct review of a trial court injunction blocking the termination of the Deferred Action...
The Supreme Court of British Columbia on Wednesday declared Canada's practice of indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons unconstitutional and stated that the practice violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms . The plaintiffs included non-profit groups...
The UK House of Commons voted 324-295 on Wednesday to pass the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill , also known as as the "Brexit" bill, after concluding its third and final reading of the bill....
