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Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Office of the Attorney General of Indonesia announced Thursday that it would rescind a policy that banned lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals from becoming employees....

A panel of legal experts for the Polish Parliament concluded y Monda that Poland is entitled to seek reparations from Germany over any acts committed by the country during the Second World War. The report[text, PDF, in...

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a group of Central American asylum-seekers Monday who hoped the Court would overturn a lower court's ruling preventing them from having their removal orders reviewed...

Hundreds of detainees at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike on Monday . According to NWDC Resistance , an advocacy group for undocumented immigrants, prior to the beginning...

The Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute on Monday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration seeking release of data on how often US citizens and others had...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during Monday's White House news briefing that cities failing to enforce immigration laws may be cut off from Justice Department grants. Sessions' statement was directed towards so-called...

The US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on Thursday released a report finding that a significant portion of federal law enforcement resources were directed to immigration-related offenses. The analysis showed that half of all federal...

The EU Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday directing the EU Commission to take measures to temporarily reintroduce visa requirements for US and other nationals whose countries still do not grant visa-free access to...

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly officially issued on Monday two memoranda to the department directing its workforce to implement two executive orders on the enforcement of immigration laws. The first memorandum...

John Kelly , Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) , signed several memos on Friday detailing plans to facilitate the detention and deportation of immigrants in the US illegally. According to the guidelines,...