The UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) called for the release of its members following their arrest during a Kosovo police operation in northern Kosovo on Tuesday. The police operation, which involved activities in the regions of Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic, Mitrovica North, Mitrovica South, Skenderaj and Drenas culminated in both citizens and police officers of [...]

The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear oral arguments in a case brought by a Mexican family against a border patrol agent over the death of their 15-year-old-son, who was killed in a cross-border shooting. In 2010 Jesus Mesa, a US Border Patrol Agent, was on the US side of the Mexican-US boarder when [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up the Boyertown Area School District v. Doe case that challenged a local school’s policy to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. Declining to take on the case on appeal means that the US Court of Appeals for [...]

The Sendai district court in Japan ruled Tuesday that forced sterilizations under the Eugenics Protection Law were unconstitutional but denied compensation to two victims. The Eugenics Protection Law was adopted in 1948 and led to the sterilization of tens of thousands of people with disabilities. The law was eventually revoked in 1996. Last month Japan [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday detailed abuses against civilians by both the Egyptian government and militants in the Sinai Peninsula, some of which the HRW has classified as war crimes. The information developed in the report was collected over a two-year investigation into the conditions facing civilians in Sinai. The abuses detailed in the [...]

The UN Human Rights Office published a report detailing the People’s Republic of Korea’s ongoing human rights violations. The report indicates that many North Koreans flee to the cross the South Korean border to escape the rampant economic poverty and corruption. According to UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, with a shaky legal environment [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Nieves v. Bartlett that probable cause to make an arrest defeats a claim that the arrest was in retaliation for speech protected by the First Amendment. The facts of the case surround the arrest of Bartlett by officers Nieves and Weight. Bartlett was arrested in Alaska at the [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday granted preliminary injunction preventing a “fetal heartbeat” abortion law from taking effect, citing to a previous decision by the court that a fetus is not viable at 15 weeks. The new law proposed by the Mississippi legislature introduces an abortion [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday on an Indiana abortion law requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, deciding, without hearing arguments, to uphold the law. The decision overturned the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s decision that Indiana’s claim that they were interested in “the ‘humane and dignified disposal of human [...]

Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 126, also known as the “Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act,” into law Friday, making it illegal for any pregnant individual in the state to have access to an abortion after eight weeks, unless it is a medical emergency. There are no exceptions for cases of rape or [...]