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The Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday ended a two-year injunction on portions of a law that restricted abortion practices. The original injunction by the Maricopa County Superior...

Egypt's interim government, the Cabinet of Ministers decided at Thursday's meeting to begin measures to end Egypt's state of emergency that has been in effect for nearly 30 years. The...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday announced the dissolution of a special court he had established to investigate poll fraud in last September's parliamentary elections . The special court...

Ukrainian Judge Rodion Kireyev on Monday rejected a request from former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to release her from prison during her trial on charges of abuse of power. The announcement was made as...

Saudi Arabian officials on Saturday proposed amendments to the draft anti-terrorism law that received much criticism from human rights groups. A spokesperson for the Shura Council confirmed that the draft of the Penal Law for Terrorism Crimes...

Ukrainian Judge Rodion Kireyev on Friday ordered the arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , also imposing a travel ban. Reversing a decision he made last week , Kireyev arrested Tymoshenko ...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist James Nyawo, a Ph.D. candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, says that the African Union must emulate the EU and begin to confront human rights abuses, not only to prevent the organization from losing...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana ruled Wednesday that Congress' removal of the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) , not through...

John Whitehead, founder and President of The Rutherford Institute, argues that the recent Fourth Circuit ruling on the constitutionality of prayers conducted at the opening of a legislative session contradicts its own precedent, in addition to that of the Supreme...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ...