The New Zealand Parliament voted Wednesday to approve a law that grants the Whanganui River the legal rights of a person. According to the new law , the river, or Te Awa Tupua as...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Thursday raising concerns over peace efforts in Colombia. According to the report, 127 activists were killed in 2016, including human rights leaders...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Monday that his state would be joining Washington and Minnesota in their lawsuit against President Donald Trump's revised executive order banning citizens from six Muslim-majority countries...
Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland , said Monday that she will seek a referendum to allow Scottish citizen to vote on independence from the UK ahead of the British exit from the EU ,...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday in an attempt to clarify his response to a question from Senator Al Franken regarding...
Republican representatives in the House Ways and Means Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee released two separate bills on Monday that, if passed, would repeal and replace...
Eleven states, led by Texas, filed a document in federal court Thursday to withdraw a lawsuit against the US government, a week after a Dear Colleague letter from the Department of Justice ...
Two UN rights experts called Friday for the Israeli government to discontinue policies that constrain human rights defenders. UN Special Rapporteurs Michael Lynk and Michel Forst say the increased restrictions, which primarily affect advocates in the...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three cases following its February 24 conference. Among the cases that were denied review was a case involving a constitutional challenge to the death penalty. The...
A Slovenian law allowing same-sex marriage took effect Friday, and the country's first same-sex marriage will take place Saturday, according to an administrator in Maribor , the city where the wedding will take place. Ksenija Klampfer said...
