Search Results for: 2016-03-09

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Monday stating hundreds of women who were victims of rape during the 2007-2008 Kenyan post-election violence are still suffering from long-term trauma, poverty, and social exclusion, and the Kenyan government...

The prosecutor in the trial of Hissène Habré on Wednesday requested that the former Chadian leader be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. The sentencing recommendation was made by Senegal special prosecutor Mbacke Fall after his closing...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Indonesian Parliament to reject proposed amendments to its law on the "eradication of terrorism" . HRW asserts that the proposed amendments are too vague...

The Maryland Senate on Tuesday overrode a veto by Governor Larry Hogan to pass bill that will allow felons to vote before they complete parole or probation. Sixty percent of the Democrat-dominated Senate voted...

JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Percival from University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law discusses what can be learned from the tragedy in Flint, Michigan...Americans who visit China quickly notice one significant difference from travel in the US. Even...

The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Aristide Nononsi, on Friday called for an end to conflict in Darfur between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid which may have...

French police have discriminated against Muslims residing in France under the state of emergency law imposed in November according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The state...

Chinese courts convicted 14 government officials and company executives on Wednesday due to their involvement in a 2014 factory explosion that killed 146 workers because of inappropriately stored chemicals. The sentences , for the crime of causing a major...

The German Cabinet approved new asylum laws on Wednesday in response to the hundreds of thousands of refugees that have entered the country since the beginning of 2015. The bill will speed up asylum...

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in favor of a lesbian woman seeking the return of her IVF-born daughter to the UK from Pakistan, giving her the right to fight for custody. The seven-year-old child was...