A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ruled on Friday that certain portions of Wiscosin’s Budget Repair Bill , which limits the rights of unions to collectively bargain, are unconstitutional. Seven of Wisconsin’s largest public unions challenged the bill on grounds of right to assembly under the First Amendment [...]
A French court in the town of Rouen decided that French-Rwandan citizen Claude Muhayimana can be sent to Rwanda to face charges concerning his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , reports said on Friday. An international arrest warrant for Muhayimana was issued in December after he was accused of participating in killings and other [...]
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged the Chilean government to pass a new law aimed to protect its citizens from discrimination based on their sexual and gender identities. Spokesperson for the OHCHR, Rupert Colville, released the statement in response to the killing of a 24-year-old gay man , [...]
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Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Thursday issued a ruling striking down the Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation law, which labels persons who are convicted of certain types of solictation as sex offenders. The new law effectively required those convicted of prostitution-like charges to register as [...]
An administrative judge for the Department of Education overturned a $55,000 fine issued against Virginia Tech for its response to the shootings in 2007 . Judge Ernest Canellos ruled that the university’s warning system did not violate the Clery Act , which sets regulations on how and when schools are required to warn students regarding [...]
The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would prohibit abortion procedures to be performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill, formerly titled “The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” finds substantial medical evidence that unborn fetuses can experience pain after their 20th week, and asserts a compelling state interest [...]
Six Oklahoma voters, along with women’s healthcare providers and religious groups, filed a lawsuit Thursday against an Oklahoma ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to redefine “personhood.” The amendment would confer “personhood” rights to embryos at the “beginning of biological development.” If the initiative passes, it would effectively outlaw all abortions, many forms [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday urged the Bahraini government to release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a military court, so that he does not die as a result of his 50 day hunger strike. Al-Khawaja, a Danish citizen, former protection coordinator with Front Line Defenders and leading [...]
An Egyptian court on Thursday found former housing minister Mohamed Ibrahim Soliman guilty of corruption and sentenced him to a total of eight years in prison. He was charged with violating laws regulating tenders and auctions including profiteering, illegal seizure of state land and squandering public funds. During his term from 1993 to 2005, Soliman [...]
