UN rights experts on Monday called for Honduras to provide justice in the murder case of Berta Cáceres , as well as broad protection for everyone defending human rights and the environment. Cáceres was the founder of the...
Fully autonomous weapons, as opposed to the current remote-controlled drone weapons, must be internationally prohibited , Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. The report is part of the Campaign to Stop Killer...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has established a new constitutional court that will be inaugurated Monday with the swearing in of the last justice. The court, which will hold supremacy over all others, was quietly created by presidential decree, but those...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has notified Maricopa County officials that it will investigate the issues voters in Arizona's most populous county faced during the March 22 primary election. After the county decided to...
Chile's justice system allows for police brutality by requiring such cases to be heard in military courts, where similar personnel manage the judicial process, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. According to the...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in a case regarding racial bias expressed in jury deliberation and whether the no-impeachment rules applied in this scenario violate an individual's Sixth Amendment right to...
A Missouri court struck down part of a law on Monday that was passed in the wake of the unrest in Ferguson last yea. Senate Bill 5 was passed as a response to widespread concern regarding the...
Louisiana jails are failing to provide basic HIV services to inmates, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Tuesday. HRW said this failure occurs through "limited, haphazard, and in many cases, non-existent" services provided...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Moon v. United States and Jeffries v. United States , both dealing with criminal sentencing. The cases had ben remanded to the US Courts of Appeals...
North Carolina individuals and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday against Governor Pat McCrory claiming the bill signed last week regarding transgender discrimination is unconstitutional and discriminatory . The bill (H.B. 2) ,...
