Search Results for: 2015-03-11

Polish women participated in a nationwide strike on Monday in protest of a new law that would completely ban abortion. The women wore black and waved black flags in symbolism of mourning the potential loss of reproductive rights....

Hedge fund manager Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (Och-Ziff) has agreed to pay a $412 million settlement, of which up to $213 million are criminal penalties imposed in connection with a widespread scheme involving the...

A Brazilian judge on Tuesday accepted charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after the Petrobas Oil Scandal . Judge Sergio Moro allowed charges that include complaints that da Silva illegally received almost USD $1.1...

The UN Independent Investigation in Burundi (UNIIB) on Tuesday stated their grave concern about the current human rights situation in Burundi. The group found, "abundant evidence of gross human rights violations," which they believe could amount...

Debt bondage remains the world's leading form of slavery despite being outlawed in many regions, according to a report presented Thursday by a UN human rights expert. UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila...

Millions of children have been driven from their homes due to violence and conflict, according to a report Wednesday by UNICEF . The report, Uprooted: The growing crisis for refugee and migrant children , found that...

Journalist and lawyer Braulio Jatar was charged with money laundering on Monday after he reported on the Caracas protest in Venezuela. Jatar covered the protest on Report Confidencial . The protest was one of the largest in recent...

Bangladesh executed a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party on Saturday for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. Mir Quasem Ali was accused of murder, confinement, torture, and inciting religious hatred. In all, five leaders of...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused Wednesday to halt the military trial of the suspect charged with orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, which killed 17 US...

A federal judge in Kansas dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday by a convicted killer who accused a county jail and its administrators of violating his religious rights. Inmate Eddie Gordon Sr. stated in 2014 in his handwritten lawsuit...