The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2 . The DOJ alleges that North Carolina is discriminating against transgender individuals in violation of federal law. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina , comes after the DOJ advised [...]

A Miami judge ruled Monday that Florida’s revamped death penalty law is unconstitutional because it does not require a unanimous agreement among jurors to approve executions. The law , enacted in March, only requires 10 out of 12 jurors to agree on imposing the death sentence. The law only requires a unanimous vote on “aggravating [...]

Three UN rights experts on Monday urged the Egyptian government end its oppressive response towards human rights advocates in the country. The experts reported that Egypt has cracked down on protesters, journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders in recent years by conducting mass arrests, using aggressive force and invading people’s privacy. The experts further referenced [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging Mississippi’s controversial House Bill 1523 . The law, set to take effect July 1, allows state employees to refuse to issue same-sex-marriage licenses and allows private businesses and religious groups to deny services to members of the lesbian, [...]

Egyptian Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek on Sunday referred at least 67 individuals for criminal proceedings in the assassination of chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat. The move comes after it was announced that six individuals were arrested or being held for assisting in the assassination of the prosecutor. The prosecutor general believes that the Muslim Brotherhood and [...]

The Hellenic Parliament voted Monday to reform their tax and pension systems in order to ensure the economic turn around of the country. The controversial reforms were apart of the agenda of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras , who called for the controversial reforms in order to create a plan to save the country money and [...]

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory filed a complaint for declaratory judgment Monday asking the federal court to weigh in on the legality of North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2 . The move comes after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) advised McCrory last week that the law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, giving [...]

A UN human rights experts on Saturday said that detainees in Sri Lanka are still experiencing torture as a tactic used by criminal and terrorism investigators seven years after the country’s civil war ended. The comments were made after a nine-day trip to the country where Juan E. Méndez , UN Special Rapporteur on torture, [...]

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including three journalists, to death for allegedly leaking state secrets to Qatar. The three journalists were tried in absentia and will have the ability to appeal the ruling. However, a final decision will not come down until June once the Grand Mufti, the highest Sunni religious official [...]

An El Salvador court agreed on Saturday to consider a civil case against former president Mauricio Funes for alleged illicit enrichment. An unexplained USD $728,000 in expenditures and income is being investigated, but no criminal charges are attached to the case. Funes’ wife and son are also defendants in this case. The El Salvador Supreme [...]