Russia's new NGO law went into effect on Tuesday, and activists have vowed to challenge it. The law requires Russian NGOs financed from abroad and involved in political activity to be registered as foreign agents [RAPSI...
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Monday stressed the need to address the causes of maritime piracy with a "multi-dimensional approach" . Addressing the UN Security Council, Eliasson noted three areas of concern that warrant...
A dissident Chinese poet was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment on Monday on charges of contract fraud. Li Bifing was sentenced by the Shehong County Court in China's Sichuan province, according to a lawyer. Li previously...
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the US Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama , which held that sentencing minors to life without parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment...
A new protocol to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) intended to combat the illegal trade of tobacco products was unanimously approved on Monday. The protocol was approved by 176 countries during...
The Supreme Court of Brazil on Monday sentenced a former aide to ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to over 10 years of imprisonment for his involvement in a vote-buying scheme. Jose Dirceu,...
The Ugandan Parliament will pass a highly controversial anti-gay bill by the end of 2012, the parliament's speaker said on Monday. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told the Associated Press that the bill reflects the will of a...
The Philippines Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not allow the live broadcast of the trial over the November 2009 Maguindanao Massacre . This decision reverses a 2011 decision to allow...
A federal judge in Wisconsin on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by Apple alleging that Google Inc. subsidiary Motorola Mobility has unfair patent licensing practices. The decision was issued just hours before the trial was scheduled to...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday struck down a Hungarian law that lowered the mandatory retirement age for judges. Hungary's Law No LXVII of 1997 on the legal status...
