A group of independent UN human rights experts on Friday called on Pakistan to reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty after reports of minors being sentenced to death. There are more than 8,000 people on death...
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UN rights experts again urge Pakistan to put moratorium on death penalty
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Rights groups criticize UN Yemen resolution
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Class action lawsuit filed against maker of Natural American Spirit cigarettes
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UN welcomes Somalia’s ratification of child rights convention
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Leader of Burkina Faso coup to face military justice
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Defense Department reviewing Colorado prisons as alternative to Guantanamo Bay
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Brazil ex-president to be questioned in Petrobras case
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Morocco violating State Department assurances for former Guantanamo prisoner: lawyer
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Oklahoma court halts all scheduled executions to investigate drug mix-up
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Supreme Court adds 13 cases to 2015 docket
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Human rights organizations on Friday criticized the UN Human Rights Council for passing a resolution on Yemen that does not call for an independent international war crimes investigation. The Netherlands, backed by other Western countries, had...
The company that manufactures American Spirit cigarettes is the subject of a new class action lawsuit . The lawsuit, filed by a Florida law firm Wednesday against Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company and its parent company...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Government of Somalia and encouraged the US to follow suit. The Convention on the Rights of the...
The interim government of Burkina Faso on Thursday apprehended the leader of the week-long military coup in September, announcing that he will face military justice. Gilbert Diendere was a general in the national army and the...
Officials from the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday that they are sending teams to review three Colorado prisons as part of President Barack Obama's ongoing efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Officials plan to...
Brazil's Federal Supreme Court ruled Friday that officials investigating corruption allegations at Petrobras , a state-run oil company, may question former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a witness. In ruling...
A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that...
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday unanimously granted a request from Attorney General Scott Pruitt to halt all of the state's scheduled executions to allow for an investigation into...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday granted certiorari in 13 cases, following its annual long conference Monday. In Bank Markazi v. Peterson the court will rule on a separation of powers...
