Legislators in Turkmenistan on Wednesday amended the nation's constitution to allow President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow , to remain in power indefinitely. Berdimuhamedow praised the amendment, which not only extended the presidential term by two...

A transgender non-citizen from Mexico filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Indiana Governor Mike Pence and two other state officials over Indiana's law that prevents non-citizens from changing their names. The law was enacted [WSJ...

Several organizations filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging Georgia's voter registration system. Since 2010, Georgia has required voter applications to match databases managed by the Georgia Department of Driver Services and the Social Security...

Bosco Ntaganda , a former rebel in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has begun a hunger strike and is refusing to appear at his trial to protest the conditions of his detention. Ntaganda is on...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday said that the draft of the final outcome document for the upcoming UN summit on refugees falls short of dealing with the issue effectively. According to the rights...

Oklahoma will have a two-year delay in lethal injections after the government board of the prison system declined to consider new execution procedures on Tuesday. After a botched execution in 2014 and numerous drug mix-ups in 2015, Attorney General Scott...

A lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday alleging inadequate education facilities and standards in Detroit. Seven students are contending that the state of Michigan...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein addressed the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council Tuesday and condemned the trend of countries attempting to refuse human rights scrutiny under the UN. Many...

South Sudan officials have said the country will take legal action against the US-based advocacy group, The Sentry , after a report published by the group accused the nation's leaders of profiting from country's violent three-year conflict. The report,...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to reinstate Ohio's Golden Week voting procedure, which allowed people to register and vote in the same week. Golden Week was the first five days of a 35-day...