The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's efforts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to...
A federal judge on Thursday enjoined the US government from sending a US citizen who has been detained in Iraq for almost a year to another country. This order follows the American Civil Liberty Union's request ...
Iraqi women and children are being denied access to humanitarian aid and are not allowed to return to their homes because of their alleged association with the Islamic State (IS), according to a report published Tuesday by Amnesty...
A Brazilian federal judge on Thursday issued a warrant for former president Luiz Inacio da Silva's arrest. Judge Sergio Moro issued the arrest warrant several hours after the Supreme Federal Court's denial ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he is cancelling Monday's relocation agreement with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The agreement followed harsh criticism Israel received after the government approved a plan that would require asylum...
A Los Angeles judge ruled Wednesday that coffee companies are required to display cancer warning labels on coffee because of the chemical produced in the roasting process. The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a non-profit group,...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska filed a lawsuit on Monday on behalf of state Senator Ernie Chambers and social justice advocate Reverend Stephen Griffith challenging the state's lethal injection procedures. The civil...
An independent UN human rights expert on Tuesday submitted a report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva highlighting Israel's failure to ensure the health and welfare of Palestinians living under their control. Michael Lynk, the current Special...
A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Monday banned the Trump administration from revoking an Obama-era deportation protections program for immigrants that were brought to the country illegally as children. This ruling...
A UN committee found Friday that the UK is breaching the rights of women in Northern Ireland by restricting their access to abortions. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stated that women...
