The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is amending a civil unions law that was overturned by the federal government earlier this year , ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell said Friday....
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Australia capital district to amend civil unions law blocked by federal government
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UN Nepal rights office urges political groups to respect obligations
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New York high court rules social service groups must offer contraceptive coverage
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DOJ tells federal courts they lack jurisdiction over detainee habeas claims
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US official urges ‘practical suggestions’ rather than calls for closing Guantanamo
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Turkish veterans to sue France over World War I killings
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Australia justice minister denounces US detention of Hicks without trial
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Bush asserts US right to protect interests in space
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Texas death row inmate commits suicide hours before execution
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Rice, Chinese foreign minister trade human rights concerns
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) has urged the Seven Party Alliance Government and the Maoist faction in Nepal to adhere to their commitments to protect human...
New York's Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, handed down a 6-0 decision Thursday, banning Catholic Charities and nine other social service organizations from refusing to provide birth control insurance coverage for...
The US Justice Department has issued a notice informing the US District Court for the District of Columbia that it no longer has jurisdiction over 196 habeas corpus cases brought by detainees at...
The US Department of State's top legal advisor asked Friday that the UK and other foreign governments to help repatriate detainees at Guantanamo Bay rather than calling for closure of the prison. In an interview [excerpt,...
A Turkish veterans association has announced that it will bring lawsuits before the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 6,317 Turks allegedly killed in the southern province of Gaziantep by French and Armenian...
Australia's justice minister has denounced the five year detention without trial of Australian citizen David Hicks in Australia's boldest official statement in several months concerning the Guantanamo prisoner. In a speech in Perth to...
US President George W. Bush has authorized the first changes to the US space policy in nearly 10 years by asserting authority to deny access to space to any adversary hostile to US interests. An unclassified version of the...
Michael Dewayne Johnson, a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection . Johnson was convicted of murdering a gas station attendant in 1995, but maintained that...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she raised concerns over China's human rights records during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that focused on North Korea and Iran's nuclear...
