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Russia, pursuant to its attempt to crack down on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within its borders, on Wednesday raided the Moscow headquarters of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Transparency International . The most recent seizure came two...

Russia's new NGO law went into effect on Tuesday, and activists have vowed to challenge it. The law requires Russian NGOs financed from abroad and involved in political activity to be registered as foreign agents [RAPSI...

Executive Director of Greenpeace International , Kumi Naidoo, on Tuesday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from implementing a new law that labels rights groups that...

A coalition of environmental protection organizations sued the US Department of the Interior , Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other officials on Tuesday in an effort to block offshore oil drilling by Royal Dutch Shell [corporate...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says the US and other aggressors in the Iraq War have not had to face legal recourse for...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is not obligated to reduce green house gas emissions, a contributor...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday ruled that, under European law, a patent cannot be issued for any process which involves removing a stem cell from and then destroying a human...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday upheld a 2008 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list polar bears as "threatened" on the...

The Brazil House of Deputies passed reforms to the the country's forest code Tuesday that ease restrictions on deforestation and provide amnesty for prior deforestation violations. The amended code would allow ...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday upheld restrictions on the use of genetically modified (GM) crops. The German state of Saxony-Anhalt had challenged the 2008 law, which requires "buffer zones"...