Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday encouraged action on behalf of UN members at the upcoming 2013 Convention for Conventional Weapons (CCW) on November 14-15, chaired by Ambassador Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel of France. The...

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi will file a complaint against current authorities alleging that the coup ousting him from his office was a crime. His lawyers told reporters on Wednesday that the former president...

A Spanish court on Wednesday acquitted three individuals charged with sinking the Bahamas-flagged oil tanker Prestige 11 years ago, finding no criminal liability. The three-judge court determined that the ship sank due to poor maintenance and repair...

An Ecuadorian court on Wednesday ordered Chevron to pay USD $9.51 billion in fines and legal fees. This was a significant reduction from the previous $18 billion judgment. The lawsuit, brought by the Amazon Defense...

Texas officials on Tuesday filed a brief with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in response to a challenge to the state's new restrictive abortion law . Last week, abortion rights groups such as...

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday elected 14 countries to a three-year term on the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) beginning January 1. The assembly chose Algeria, China, Cuba, France Maldives, Mexico, Morocco,...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to investigate the bombing of two villages that killed 33 civilians in 1994. A unanimous court issued its preliminary judgment,...

The Hawaii Senate on Tuesday passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage by a vote of 19-4. The Hawaii House of Representatives approved the same-sex marriage bill last week after adding amendments...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday sentenced Somali pirate Ahmed Muse Salad to life in prison without parole for his involvement in the deaths of four Americans off...

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