Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday sent a letter to Guinea Prime Minister Mamady Youla, urging him to ensure that any government oversight on telecommunications respects individual privacy. On January 6, 2016, the Autorité de Régulation des Postes...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Thursday released a statement finding that Julian Assange , founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks , has been arbitrarily detained in the UK since 2010. Assange...
A group of UN experts on people of African descent stated Friday that "ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of African...
US President Barack Obama on Friday announced a new set of actions his administration is taking in an effort to close the gender pay gap. Speaking with reporters, Obama chastised American business for paying women, on average, only 79...
In anticipation of the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising, Egyptian authorities have spent the last week clamping down on dissidents in an effort to avoid further political unrest. At the instruction of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [BBC...
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council on Friday met with top government officials in Burundi, in an effort to end months of political turmoil in the country. Led by Ismael Gaspar Martins, Samantha...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in eight new cases for this term. In McDonnell v. United States , the Supreme Court is asked to decide the meaning of "official action"...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the cases of Bank Markazi v. Peterson and Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle. In Bank Markazi v. Peterson , plaintiff Deborah Peterson,...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday warned that the use of cluster bombs by a Saudi-led coalition against neighborhoods in Yemen may amount to a war crime. Cluster bombs spread bomblets over a wide area, many...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday called for nine new amendments to the US Constitution in an effort to shrink the size of the federal government. Speaking at a political event in Austin, Texas,...
