Search Results for: 2015-04-24

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed House Bill 1409 into law Wednesday extending the mandatory waiting period for women seeking an abortion from 24 to 72 hours. Fallin said the new law, "will allow...

UN Women on Monday released Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights , the gender-equality organization's flagship report on the status of women around the world. The report "proposes a comprehensive agenda for key...

A court in Nairobi on Tuesday ordered five Kenyan citizens and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while authorities investigate possible connections to last week's university massacre. The court granted state lawyers' request for the...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday expressed deep concern at the ongoing political predicament surrounding the release of incriminating audio recordings of conversations between officials in the Former Yugoslav Republic...

Alaska's voter initiative legalizing marijuana use takes effect Tuesday, making it the third state, along with Colorado and Washington, to legalize recreational marijuana. The ballot, which was approved by voters in November, allows adults 21 and older to possess...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday criticized the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of using "unlawful and excessive force" against protestors in the capital of Kinshasa this past week. The recent demonstrations...

Nimra Azmi, Harvard Law School

Andrea Miller, University of Minnesota Law School, Class of 2015

Susan Bitensky, Michigan State University College of Law

The High Court of England and Wales on Tuesday struck down a petition calling for an independent inquiry into the killing of 24 Malaysian rubber plantation workers by British troops in 1948. The incident occurred during the Malayan...