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Marylanders on both sides of the abortion divide are steeling themselves for a historic clash over the procedure, after lawmakers voted to prohibit federal subsidies for insurance that covers it.
An Islamic center set up by U.S.-allied Qatar is trying to improve Islam's image in the West, defend women's rights and promote interfaith dialogue, its director, Muhammad Ahmad, said on Thursday.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will speak in a Milwaukee suburb on Friday night as part of a program presented by Wisconsin Right to Life.
On Nov. 2 representatives from Honduran women's organizations presented a grim panorama of violations of women's human rights by the de facto regime led by...
What's Your Reaction? Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to deliver remarks at a Wisconsin Right to Life event Friday evening, one of the few speeches the former Republican presidential nominee will have given since she resigned the governorship last summer.
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favour of resolution endorsing a UN-sponsored report into war crimes committed during Israel's war on Gaza. The Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, was endorsed by the assembly on Thursday by a margin of 114 to 18, after two days of debate. Forty-four member-nations abstained from voting. read more
Jerusalem - Israel Friday rejected a UN General Assembly resolution that gives it three months to launch an independent and credible investigation into allegations that it committed war crimes during last winter's Gaza war. Although the resolution ca...
The United Nations General Assembly approved Thursday afternoon a resolution that calls on both Israel and the Palestinians to investigate the accusations of war crimes in last winter's Gaza incursion as described in a UN-commissioned report.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection, but many are skeptical. They say that it is all nothing more than political maneuvering, and that it is more than likely that he will seek another term. But it is clear that Abbas standing with Washington has fallen.
MIAMI----Jaret L. Davis and Michele L. Stocker, shareholders in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices, respectively, of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A., are listed in South Florida's 100 Most Accomplished Blacks in Healthcare and Law, a directory published by ICABA™ Media Holdings, LLC.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Washington should distance itself from harsh interrogation techniques or face questions regarding its commitment to human rights, Amnesty International said.
Amnesty International has urged the authorities in Côte d’Ivoire to ensure that £27 million compensation paid by the oil trading company Trafigura in the Probo Koala case.
A woman who took her daughter to Spain during a custody battle in Bergen County and set off an international dispute that kept her jailed for three years said Thursday that she still cannot bring the child back to New Jersey.
The Los Angeles Police Department has cleared almost two-thirds of its backlog in testing DNA rape kits after coming under pressure from women's rights groups and City Council members to speed the process,
Jerusalem - Israel Friday rejected an Arab-backed UN General Assembly resolution, giving it three months to launch an independent, credible investigation into last winter's Gaza war. The resolution, adopted by the international body with a 114-18 vot...
Berlin- One of two inquiries into an airstrike in Afghanistan in which dozens of civilians are thought to have died became snarled Friday in a legal question about what law applies. A military inquiry begun by NATO has suggested that German army Colo...
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