Search Results for: 2015-07-20

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari on Tuesday in three appeals filed by military contractor KBR, Inc. , seeking to end lawsuits over a soldier's electrocution in Iraq, soldier exposure to open-air burn...

Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was granted a one-month medical parole Monday by Taiwan's Ministry of Justice for treatment of neurodegeneration. Chen, 64, is currently in the fourth year of his 20-year sentence for corruption. While in...

Melissa Brumer, Fordham University School of Law

A panel of three federal judges in California on Monday granted the state an extension until February 28, 2016, to reduce overcrowding in its massive prison system. The California prison system currently houses about 120,000...

Nimra Azmi, Harvard Law School

Liz Rinehart, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Protests in Syria began as candlelight vigils in early February 2011, a sympathetic response to the escalating rebellion in Egypt. HRW released the first reports of violence against demonstrators on February 9, 2011, and stated that Syrian activists were urging...

UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque on Friday applauded a new California law creating a right to safe drinking water. Assemblymember Mike...

Delegates from 194 countries at the Durban UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa agreed on Sunday to negotiate global initiatives that would eventually force countries to take legally-binding action in order to slow the pace of...

Phelim Kine, Senior Researcher in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, argues that in order for the Chinese government to legitimately address human rights concerns, it must acknowledge the shortcomings of previous efforts and ensure that government officials and...