The French Senate on Thursday adopted a different version of a constitutional amendment that would deprive French citizenship or rights attached to it from dual nationals convicted of terrorism, essentially blocking the measure. For the amendment...

Environmental law firm ClientEarth filed a lawsuit on Friday against the government of the UK for its alleged failure to combat illegal air pollution. The law firm filed papers stating that the UK experiences 40,000 early deaths from...

Brazil's Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it had accepted a plea agreement offered by prosecutors in a case against Senator Delcídio do Amaral for his alleged involvement in a recent corruption...

UN experts on Tuesday concluded that a Russian woman suffered gender-based discrimination when she was denied employment at the helm of a boat. Svetlana Medvedeva was selected by a private company after graduating as a navigation officer to...

Chinese lawyer and professor, Chen Taihe, fled his country and arrived in San Leandro, California, the Dui Hua Foundation said Monday. Chen was detained last July as part of a crackdown on rights lawyers that had...

The West Virginia Senate on Saturday voted 23-11 to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin's veto of House Bill 4145 , allowing civilians 21 and over to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The bill will now become law after the...

The Alabama Supreme Court dismissed petitions Friday that sought a ruling declaring the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage valid despite the US Supreme Court's June ruling declaring same-sex marriage legal. The petitions had been filed by the Alabama Citizens...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein warned US authorities on Friday of the potentially widespread ramifications of forcing Apple to unlock the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone. Zeid urged authorities to understand that a ruling...

The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) released a report Tuesday condemning Greece for police abuse, poor prison conditions and mistreatment of detained juveniles. The report details...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Monday denied a Department of Justice (DOJ) request to order Apple to disable the security of an iPhone that was seized...