UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst on Thursday condemned the execution of Raramuri indigenous activist Isidro Baldenegro Lopez. Lopez was an environmental activist in Mexico who fought to for indigenous...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday ordered Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Citigroup) to pay over 25 million dollars for engaging in deceitful business trading practices. The CFTC found that Cigroup would...

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions Idriss Jazairy on Thursday praised US President Barack Obama's recent decision to lift all US sanctions on Sudan. He noted that he decision acknowledges the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction of former Massey Energy co-CEO Donald Blankenship for conspiracy for his role in a 2010 West Virginia mine explosion...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Cecilia Jimenez-Damary on Thursday sharply condemned bombings in Nigeria as a means of counter insurgency against Boko Haram. The bombings struck a...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that the Department of Defense must release a cache of photos taken at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq...

A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday upheld the firing of corrections officer Linda Tisby, who was terminated for wearing a hijab to work as an expression of her religious beliefs. Tissuey, who had worked for the...

Seventy-seven advocacy groups penned a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking for transparency in the social media website's censorship of speech. The groups are concerned with Facebook's censorship of people of color's posts, mainly regarding political...

The US Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Oracle America, Inc. on Tuesday alleging the leading technology company has a systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their counterparts in the same job...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday struck down Chicago restrictions on gun ranges throughout the city. The Chicago ordinances barred anyone under the age of 18 from entering a gun range,...