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When Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered her oath last summer, many women -- and especially Latinas -- felt renewed hope as a champion of women's rights took her place on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Amnesty International, citing cases of alleged slayings by the military in the drug war, criticizes civilian officials, saying they fail to properly investigate or prosecute crimes by the army.
Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18.
Three women brought their case against Ireland's strict abortion law to the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday, saying the Catholic country's legislation violates their rights.
Iran has strongly denounced the trial of its citizen Amir Hussein Ardabili in the United States, calling his trial a politically motivated move which shows U.S. contempt for international law.
They have told your mother that their investigations are not yet complete. Shocked, your mother asks, "what has Mehrnoosh done that two weeks are required for investigations about her work?" Write Mehrnoosh. Write on the interrogation forms marked with "Truth is Your Salvation." -Nafise Azad
Two leading international human rights groups gave U.S. President Barack Obama mixed reviews on his human rights record on Wednesday, a day before he is slated to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - 12/09/09) - National PTA and DLA Piper LLP, an international law firm, recently released a guide that will help families, policymakers and child advocates develop and monitor family engagement legislation in their states. The 271-page State Laws on Family Engagement in Education Reference Guide provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of family engagement ...
Police in Nigeria carry out hundreds of extra-judicial killings every year and only those who can afford to pay bribes can guarantee their safety from execution or torture, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Jerusalem - Nearly half a million of Israel's 7.5-million population live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, but they live there for vastly different reasons. Although under international law all settlements are illegal, in Israel many peo...
Councilwoman Melinda Katz will take a new job at an international law firm upon completing her second term in the City Council. It seems the city’s jobs crisis isn’t hurting defeated Queens pols.
Amnesty International on Friday warned that Iraq's plans to move an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in the country's remote south would put them at risk of arbitrary arrest and torture.
Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the increasing number of African asylum seekers crossing into Israel -- including, say refugee rights groups, a policy of shooting those along the border. But those who make it to the Promised Land face hardship
Editorâs note: This is the first in a series of stories on local veterans of the Afghanistan invasion or the war in Iraq.
Complaints of torture, murder and illegal detention by the Mexican army have jumped as soldiers have been dragged into a long, gruesome battle with powerful drug cartels, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iran must allow the United Nations to investigate allegations of human-rights abuses during the post-election unrest, Amnesty International says.
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