In a press release issued on Friday, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyan , called upon Ukrainian officials to develop a comprehensive plan to address internally displaced persons (IDP), and provide durable solutions to the issue. Beyani urged the government “to intensify its efforts to protect the rights [...]
Tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico in protest of same-sex marriage Saturday, a controversial topic in the country exacerbated by a proposal from embattled President Enrique Peña Nieto to recognize same-sex marriage. The marches were organized by the National Front for the Family, an alliance of religious organizations and civil society groups, and [...]
A court in Kiel, Germany, ruled Friday that a 92-year-old woman charged with Nazi crimes is unfit to stand trial. The woman was identified only as Helma M. due to German privacy laws and is reportedly partially deaf, blind and suffering from an internal illness. Helma was charged with being an accessory to the murder [...]
A Volkswagen (VW) engineer pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to one count of conspiracy to defraud the US, commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act by implementing software in the manufacturer’s vehicles that could cheat US emissions tests. James Robert Liang was indicted in the Eastern District of Michigan in June, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday blocked a proof of citizenship requirement imposed upon voters by the states of Alabama, Georgia and Kansas. The court found that the parties challenging the requirement “have demonstrated irreparable harm, a likelihood of success on the merits, that the balance of equities [...]
Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier imprisoned for leaking classified documents, has gone on a hunger strike to protest her mistreatment at the Fort Leavenworth facility in Kansas where she has been imprisoned since her conviction in military court in 2013. Manning was convicted of leaking 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks and has been [...]
The Aruban legislature on Friday voted to give official recognition to same-sex couples, giving them the right to register their unions and receive the benefits granted to other married people. Those benefits, such as the right to make medical decisions on behalf of a spouse or the right to a spouse’s pension in case of [...]
Construction on the Dakota Access oil pipeline was paused on Friday by request of three federal agencies that urged pipeline owner Energy Transfer Partners to pause its lawful building after a federal judge ruled in the company’s favor. US District Judge James Boasberg denied injunctive relief to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe , which had [...]
The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected Michigan’s appeal of an injunction that would not allow the state to ban straight-ticket voting. The ban had been passed by the legislature in 2015 and was heavily supported by state Republicans calling for the same modern ballot system already adopted by 40 other states. State democrats argued [...]
The Obama administration on Thursday shut down a Guantanamo Bay prison camp to expedite the permanent closing of the detention center. Camp 5 was a 100-cell maximum security prison that was known for receiving problematic detainees such as hunger strikers and war criminals. The prison staff began moving detainees out of Camp 5 last month, [...]
