The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court challenging Wisconsin’s new voter identification law as a violation of the Wisconsin Constitution . Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief in challenging the constitutionality of parts of Wisconsin Act 23 passed in 2011. The controversial voter identification law states [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday called for a full investigation into the killing of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Rupert Colville, the spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told reporters that there needs to be an [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by group of 10 congressmen alleging that US President Barack Obama violated Article I Section 8 and the 1973 War Powers Resolution by authorizing increased military strikes in Libya without Congressional approval. The complaint filed by the [...]
A judge for the Queen’s Court Bench of Alberta has granted legal rights to a non-biological father of a child—the ex-partner of the biological father—over the biological father in a child custody case. While the judge stated that the biological father, identified as “H”, would remain the legal parent of the unidentified eight-year-old girl, the [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights for the West Bank and Gaza Strip , Richard Falk called Thursday, called for better guidelines on the treatment of Palestinian youth arrested by the Israeli military. in a report to the General Assembly’s human rights committee, Falk expressing concern about reports of violence against children during arrest and [...]
UN Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs Patricia O’Brien on Thursday urged the government of Cambodia to refrain from interfering with the UN-backed tribunal tasked with trying those alleged responsible for mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge . In a meeting in with Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to discuss recent [...]
The UK’s top judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Igor Judge , said on Wednesday that UK courts are not bound by decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . Speaking before the Lords Constitution Committee , Judge suggested that while UK courts are not required to follow the ECHR [...]
Lawyers for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk filed a request in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for a hearing to determine whether the FBI failed to turn over evidence that could have assisted Demjanjuk’s case. Demjanjuk was convicted in Germany in May on more than 28,000 counts of accessory to [...]
Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Eshagh al-Habib, on Thursday denied allegations in a recent UN report that human rights violations in Iran are on the rise . Al-Habib criticized the report for being poorly sourced, non-neutral and simply untrue . The report cited an increase in persecutions among political activists and journalists, detention conditions [...]
Libyan opposition forces on Thursday captured and killed former leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril confirmed at a press conference. Military forces loyal to the newly formed government, the National Transitional Council (NTC) , took control of Sirte on Thursday and soon after found, captured and killed Gaddafi. [...]
