UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay addressed the growing issue of global business' role in gross human rights abuses in a statement on Tuesday. In addressing the Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights,...
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal rule requiring mobile-data providers to offer roaming agreements to other providers on "commercially reasonable" terms. In April 2011 the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California on Tuesday refused to issue an injunction to block a pending law preventing mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change...
Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh on Tuesday ended a 49-day hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions and a travel ban imposed on her family. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. In Sebelius v. Auburn Regional Medical Center the court heard arguments on whether a 180-day statutory time limit for...
The US Supreme Court released a unanimous opinion Tuesday in Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States on the Federal government's immunity under the Takings Clause of the Fifth...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a new law that prohibits mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday upheld the life sentence Milan Lukic, a Bosnian Serb commander who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes that include burning more than...
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday identified a series of gross human rights abuses committed by al Qaeda affiliates and Yemen's government forces during the 2011–2012 conflict over control of the country's southern region of Abyan....
More than 300 of Sri Lanka's judges met in the capital Colombo on Monday to demand an impartial inquiry into charges against the nation's Supreme Court chief justice. The judges issued a statement in which...
