The FBI released the 2015 Hate Crime Statistics on Monday, showing the number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent rise in crimes...
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US President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged the difficulties he has encountered trying to shut down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, blaming his failure on congressional restrictions. On his second day in office in 2009, Obama issued...
Reports of US war crimes committed during, and in the aftermath of, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 provide a "reasonable basis" for further investigation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined in a report released...
The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on Tuesday urged the UN and African Union to intervene and stop an impending genocide in Burundi. The plea for intervention is based on a...
The UK Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) said in a report Monday that it can find no clear evidence that Saudi Arabia has violated international humanitarian law (IHL) in Yemen. Conceding that it has been "unable...
A United Nations (UN) rights group released a statement earlier this month expressing concerns that the US government is ignoring treaty rights, as well as human rights, of Native Americans that are protesting the Dakota Access...
OnMonday, The Becket Fund announced it had filed suit challenging a new Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation on behalf of North Dakota and several Catholic organizations. The suit, filed in federal district court...
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday announced an agreement with the US to resettle refugees currently in detention centers on the South Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus. The agreement will prioritize the resettlement of...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case brought by Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) against science education policies adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education ....
Delegates from the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday called on officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take greater responsibility to adopt a consensual and inclusive electoral calendar. A weekend...
