Search Results for: 2017-02-06

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appellate brief Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit calling for the reinstatement of President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order. Regarding...

At least 20 people were reported to have been killed and 41 injured on Tuesday following a terrorist attack at the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is believed that the perpetrator wore a suicide vest...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards was sued on Monday over the public defender system over allegations it denies effective representation to the poor . Edwards was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center ...

JURIST Guest Kübra Berberoğlu, Oxford Human Rights Law Reporter (OxHRLR), discusses how, in the case of B.L. v. Australia, the HRC has made either a careless or a disappointing start in clarifying how it employs the internal relocation alternative...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the government of Myanmar to "urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses" against the Rohingya Muslim population, including sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. According...

Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long...

Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal...

The government of Romania on Saturday repealed a decree enacted earlier in the week that had decriminalized corruption offenses and official misconduct in which the damages were less than €44,000. Since the enactment, protesters had taken to the...

The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted to repeal an Obama-era gun regulation that required mental health information to be shared with the national gun background check system. The Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments...

Judges for the UK High Court dismissed a claim brought by the Single Market Justice campaign , which argued that members of parliament should be given a vote on Britain leaving the European Economic Area . The...