The EU General Court on Tuesday reinstated a four-year-old trademark infringement complaint filed by Starbucks against a Belgian coffeehouse whose musical-note signage is accused of infringing the iconic mermaid logo. Hasmik Nersesyan filed an...
A coalition of human rights groups, including the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK), Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Human Rights for Yemen, sent a letter to Prime Minister...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on Wednesday condemned the rise in civilian casualties in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria resulting from the recent increase in airstrikes and ground-based attacks...
Canada filed a 32-page complaint against the US at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday concerning certain laws, regulations and other measures in relation to US anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigations, reviews or other proceedings....
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 72-page report on Monday documenting widespread discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) individuals in Ghana both in public and private or family settings. The report, titled "No Choice but...
The lower house of parliament of India, the Lok Sabha , on Thursday passed a bill criminalizing the practice of triple talaq or "instant divorce" whereby a Muslim man could divorce his wife by merely uttering the...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-2 to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations in favor of returning to what it calls "longstanding, bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework that has fostered rapid Internet growth, openness,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday vacated a lower federal court injunction that imposed county-based signature-gathering requirements that minor political parties in Pennsylvania must fulfill to get their candidates on the...
The US House of Representatives voted 423-3 on Wednesday to approveH. Con. Res. 90 condemning "ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extradited 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano, a former El Salvador colonel, to Spain to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of eight individuals that included...
