A judge from Multnomah County Circuit Court in Oregon ruled on Friday that an individual's gender could be legally changed from from female to non-binary. This ruling legally recognizing a third gender option is the first...

Authorities in Bangladesh detained approximately 1,600 people between Thursday and Friday in efforts to find and detain radical Islamist militants. Police suspect only 37 of the detainees are more than petty criminals, none of whom are believed to...

The Michigan Senate on Thursday passed a bill (SB 291) that would compensate people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes once they are exonerated . SB 291, also known as the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday cautioned Israel that their response to the deadly Tel Aviv attack earlier this week may be violating international law by implementing prohibitive collective...

California Governor Edmund Brown signed a bill into law on Friday that attempts to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase healthcare plans. The bill, SB 10 , allows the healthcare exchanges set up in the state...

In an opinion issued on Friday, the Venice Commission announced that it believes Poland's current surveillance powers are too broad and need to be checked. The opinion focuses on sections 19 and 20c of the Police Act...

A US magistrate judge issued an order on Thursday requiring California prisons to provide transgender inmates who identify as female access to female-oriented items to which inmates have access in women's correctional facilities. The order lists pajamas,...

A group of five doctors and the American Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME) filed suit Wednesday challenging a physician-assisted suicide law. The End of Life Option Act would allow "terminally-ill" patients, an individual who, determined...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday condemned a recent string of rocket and mortar attacks against residential areas and markets in Taizz, Yemen, from June 3 to June...

Members of the US House of Representatives approved bi-partisan legislation to relieve financial pressure on Puerto Rico on Thursday. The statute, entitled the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016 (PROMESA) , creates a financial...