Maryland Senate approves bill allowing driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants
The Maryland Senate on Monday voted 29-18 to approve a bill that would substantially expand the availability of driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants residing in the state. To be eligible to receive...
Two Bahraini human rights activists have intensified their hunger strike and are refusing fluids, according to a report released Monday by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) . According to the report Zainab al-Khawaja [HP...
Rights group praises Oman pardon of activists and writers convicted under insult laws
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday praised Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said's decision to pardon all activists and writers convicted last year for insulting the ruler, information technology crimes and taking...
Supreme Court rules federal Medicaid statute pre-empts state law
The US Supreme Court ruled 6–3 Tuesday in Wos v. EMA , formerly Delia v. EMA , that the NC Gen. Stat. § 108A-57, which takes a third of medical malpractice settlements for Medicaid reimbursement,...
Philippines Supreme Court temporarily blocks state funding for contraceptives
The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Tuesday temporarily blocked implementation of a law that provides for state funding of contraceptives. The legislation , which was signed into law last year following approval ...
Counsel for Kenyan politician Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop the charges against his client for lack of evidence. The request came...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the executions of seven people in Saudi Arabia as a violation of international safeguards on the use of the death penalty. The men were...
Arkansas senate approves bill banning abortions after 20 weeks
The Arkansas Senate on Monday voted 25-7 in favor of a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life....
Prince Taylor, an investigator for the Charles Taylor defense team in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was sentenced Thursday to two years on each of...
Egypt court orders release of Mubarak's former chief-of-staff
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered that the former chief-of-staff for deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak , Zakaria Azmi, be released from prison after he was granted a retrial in a corruption case. Azmi...
