The European Commission reached a tentative settlement Wednesday with Google in connection to an ongoing EU antitrust investigation of the company. Google faces USD $5 billion in fines over accusations that the company’s search engine is blocking competitors’ content and promoting Google services. Under the settlement Google would guarantee that during European searches whenever Google [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Wednesday urged the Russian government to repeal legislation banning the dissemination of homosexual “propaganda” to minors. Reports indicate that the CRC is specifically concerned that the law’s broad definitions of “propaganda” will lead to persecution of the nation’s gay community, which includes younger gay [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) released a report Wednesday condemning the Holy See for its handling of allegations regarding sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests. The report calls on the Vatican to remove all priests who have, or are suspected of committed acts of child abuse, and for [...]

The Scottish Parliament on Tuesday passed the Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill , in a 105 to 18 vote . The final vote in favor of the bill came after a detailed consideration of the bill by parliamentary committees. Same-sex couples in Scotland currently have the right to enter into civil partnerships, but this law [...]

European countries are violating the human rights of people trying to change their legal gender, forcing these individuals to undergo, among other things, invasive surgery and sterilization in order to change their legal status, Amnesty International (AI) alleged in a report released Tuesday. Entitled “The State Decides Who I Am,” AI details the case law [...]

The UN on Monday released a report to the Security Council , which highlights the severe suffering faced by children in Syria during the period between March 2011 and November 2013. The report states that the Syrian government and military allies have killed and tortured extensive numbers of children, while opposition forces have recruited children [...]

Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Odah filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that he should be freed from prison upon US withdrawal from Afghanistan, citing international law’s mandate that prisoners of war be released once a conflict has ended. Odah has based his claim on US [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday granted a motion to put on hold a ruling upholding a California law that bans licensed therapists from working to change the sexual orientation of a minor. The order contained no reasoning, stating only that a 90-day hold would be put into affect to [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana declared Monday that Wednesday’s scheduled execution of 70-year-old Christopher Sepulvado by lethal injection will be delayed for 90 days. Sepulvado was charged with the murder of his six-year-old stepson in 1993. Last week, Louisiana Department of Corrections officials expanded their execution protocol [...]

Thailand’s Democrat party, the country’s main opposition political party, petitioned the Thai Constitutional Court Tuesday to annul the results of last week’s national elections, alleging that the polls were unconstitutional. The petition also seeks the dissolution of the ruling party of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and to ban party executives from holding political office for [...]