The Singapore Supreme Court on Wednesday again rejected a challenge to an anti-gay law criminalizing sexual conduct between men. This section outlaws any kind of sexual conduct between men, both in public...
Montgomery County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes on Tuesday appealed a lower court order to cease issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court . Hanes, who began granting marriage licenses...
A judge for New Jersey's Mercer County Superior Court in Trenton ruled Friday that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry. Judge Mary Jacobson found that the current status of civil unions deprive same-sex couples of federal...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed a law on Friday to improve prison conditions and take one step closer to integration with the EU. This law was required to allow the signing of the...
A three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Tuesday that the Obama administration would be allowed to join the ongoing challenge to Texas' voter redistricting maps....
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer filed a complaint on Wednesday against UK security forces MI5 and MI6 with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal . The complaint was filed on behalf...
The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill that would significantly increase the amount of logging in national forests. The bill's supporters claim the measure would both create more jobs and help reduce wildfires...
On Friday, Amnesty International (AI) called upon members of the UN to demand Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir turn himself in to the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) and the Texas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas [official...
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) said Tuesday that the ongoing Syrian Civil War has victimized those with disabilities . The committee, which is made up of independent human...