US-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites raise serious questions of international law under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT or Treaty). While these attacks may be evaluated under the UN ...

Sean Nolan is a graduate of Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and a candidate for the California Bar.  Los Angeles is a place more prone to paradox and contradiction than most. The ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Bill 10 on Saturday, mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public elementary and secondary schools. “Texas is where the American dream lives,' ...

The UN secretary-general condemned on Sunday an attack against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) that killed a Zambian peacekeeper and wounded another. António ...

A layoff notice was served to 639 employees at Voice of America and its parent organisation, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), on Friday. The announcement brought the total number of employees ...

The European Union’s diplomatic service, European External Action Service (EEAS), concluded in a report Friday, that Israel may have violated its human rights obligations in the EU-Israel Association ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and over 110 organizations and trade unions on Friday called on the EU to immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel, citing the latter's ongoing atrocities against ...

A UN expert on Friday urged governments worldwide to strengthen protections for migrants, warning that thousands face the ...

The UK's lower chamber of Parliament, the House of Commons, on Friday voted to pass a landmark assisted dying bill for terminally ill people, advancing it to the House of Lords for review. The ...

A US federal judge on Friday ordered the federal government to release detained activist Mahmoud Khalil immediately. Judge ...

The Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision on Friday that retirees are not 'qualified persons' under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and therefore cannot bring ADA suits over issues that ...