The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on Wednesday entitled "Additional Actions Could Strengthen DHS Efforts to Address Sexual Abuse." The GAO report was initiated in part by government documents that found...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court , challenging Kansas' two-tiered voter registration system. The US Supreme Court has ruled that laws requiring...

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne on Wednesday asked US Supreme Court to reconsider a controversial Arizona law that would strip Medicaid funding from doctors and clinics that perform abortions. The US Court of...

The Scottish Parliament completed the first step towards the passage of the Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill on Wednesday by a 98-15 vote in favor of the bill. Same-sex couples currently have the...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear arguments in two separate cases concerning Act 23, the state's voter ID law . One case will review a decision by the Madison-based District Four Court of Appeals...

China's Supreme People's Court issued a ruling on Thursday banning the use of forced confessions extracted through torture. The court reportedly claimed that "illegal methods" of confession extraction, including food and sleep deprivation and...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged member states to ratify or accede to the Rome Statute , the treaty that established the International Criminal Court . The Rome Statute was signed...

Illinois on Wednesday became the sixteenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Pat Quinn signed the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act (Act) . Although the Act allows same-sex couples to marry,...

Voters of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday rejected a proposed ordinance that would have banned all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In a 55 to 45 percent vote, the citizens voted against allowing the...

The Regional Court of Berlin on Tuesday held that 25 of Google's privacy policies and terms of service violate Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) , Germany's data protection law. The case against Google was...