Search Results for: 2015-08-21

Two Brazilian lawyers filed a new petition on Wednesday in a renewed attempt to impeach President Dilma Rousseff , alleging she forged accounts in 2014. On Monday a parliamentary commission found there was no proof that...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky asking the court to enforce orders relating to the issuance of...

Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accepted International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes that may have occurred since February of last year. Fighting and political clashes between Russian and Ukrainians loyalists after Russia's annexation...

Syrian civilians are facing war crimes and crimes against humanity with "no end in sight," a group of UN human rights experts said Thursday. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ...

The Director-General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , Irina Bokova on Tuesday condemned the destruction of the Temple of Bel by Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, calling it an "intolerable...

A Travis county judge on Friday denied a request for a temporary restraining order meant to halt the University of Texas at Austin's efforts to relocate a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The university's plan to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Macedonia to put an end to the police violence occurring against migrants at the country's border with Greece. On August 21, the day after Macedonia declared a state...

Russia's Federation Council on Wednesday announced it plans to add 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to a list of groups that will be investigated for undermining the government. The...

Russian President Vladmir Putin signed a law on Sunday that allows for foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or firms deemed "undesirable" on national security grounds to be sanctioned and banned from operation within the country. Further, the term...

JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Eaker of the American University of Paris discusses the EU's position on the Ukraine Crisis ... "United in Diversity"—The Official EU Motto The sweeping expansion of the EU over the past 20 years has seemed to...