A UN human rights expert on Tuesday called on the government of Georgia to address the reasons why children in the country are placed under protective care. UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Maud de Boer-Buquicchio praised the use of temporary shelters but said that the country must [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Russia’s Constitutional Court has rejected a binding decision of an international human rights body as “non-executable.” The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in 2013 that Russia must reform an absolute ban on voting rights for prisoners. The ECHR had decided that Russia’s absolute ban on prisoners [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 Tuesday in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt that Nevada may not apply a state law that would allow damages against California that are greater than damages that can be awarded against Nevada in similar circumstances. The court held that Nevada cannot refuse to extend to other states haled into [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the first round of EU sanctioned deportations from Greece to Turkey on April 4 was “rushed, chaotic, and violated the rights of those deported.” The deportation of 66 people from the Greek island of Chios to Turkey was reportedly “riddled with an array of irregularities,” including authorities not [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday warned of an increase in torture and ill treatment in Burundi. In the last four months Zeid’s office has recorded more than 300 new cases of torture and ill-treatment. The human rights chief asked the Burundi government to put an immediate end to [...]

An Israeli court on Tuesday convicted Yosef Haim for the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager that led to a 50-day war in Gaza. Haim entered an insanity plea, but the court rejected his plea stating he was aware of what he was doing at the time of the crime. The Israeli minors accompanying the [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in United States v. Texas on the Obama administration’s controversial immigration policy. The question before the court is whether a state that provides a subsidies to undocumented immigrants has standing to challenge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding its guidance seeking to establish a process for [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari from an appeal by three book authors and their advocacy group, the Authors Guild , claiming Google was violating copyright law by scanning millions of books and placing them within an online search engine. With this denial, the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the [...]

Election Justice USA on Monday is filing a suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York claiming that the state has fraudulently changed the registration of thousands of voters which bars them from voting in the presidential primary. Election Justice spokesperson Shyla Nelson, founder of advocacy group One Voice, said [...]

The UN reported Monday that violence in Afghanistan has injured health and education personnel, reducing available health care and restricting children’s’ access to fundamental health and educational services. The study , prepared by UNICEF and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) , was complied over the course of three years and notes that there [...]