The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted 56-39 in favor of allowing charter schools in the state for the first time. House Bill 520, supported by Governor Matt Bevin and amended by Representative Phil Moffett , allows...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled in favor of the Secretary of the Interior in its efforts to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Once...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a case filed by the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority against 97 defendants involved...

The Minnesota House approved a bill on Thursday to prevent cities from implementing their own labor laws. HF 600 would ultimately prohibit local governments from regulating minimum wage, paid and unpaid leave, advance notice of work...

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 ...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, urged the government of Australia on Friday to include all women in the fight to stop violence against women. According to Šimonović, violence against women in Australia is at...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Friday that Sri Lanka has made slow progress towards establishing transitional justice. According to the report, while various ad hoc bodies of justice have...

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...

A UN cultural rights expert presented a report to the Human Rights Council on Friday expressing concern over the normalization of extreme rhetoric in politics, culture and media all over the globe. In presenting her report,...

Ikponwosa Ero , the UN's first Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism , called Friday for the "enhanced oversight" of traditional healers to ensure that they do not use...