Summary: An animal rights group is suing for elephants being kept at the Connecticut Zoo to receive legal personhood. An animal rights...
Summary: Texas has executed seven people so far this year. After multiple appeals attempts, Mexican citizen Ruben Ramirez Cardenas died by lethal injection...
Summary: An appeals court in Mississippi said that HB 1523 does not harm the state’s citizens. On Thursday, a federal appeals court...
Summary: Zhou Shifeng is the latest lawyer to be convicted by the Chinese government for subversion. The Chinese government has convicted attorney...
Summary: A court said today that the man behind the 2011 Norway attacks had his human rights violated in prison. International terrorist Anders...
Summary: Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang receives his sentence from last week’s trial. After a highly publicized one-day trial last week, Chinese authorities...
Summary: The Miss World pageant will begin in the middle of December, but one contestant will be missing as China denied a...
Summary: One attorney is arguing everyone should have the right to explore the depths of their own minds, even if it means using...
Summary: On Friday, the U.N. ruled in favor of former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically-elected president who was imprisoned by...
Summary: With the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba after 54 years of being closed, the hopes of a better future...
Summary: A nurse in Maine hopes to loosen state quarantine laws with lawsuit against Maine. How far can state laws go when...
Summary: After the Tory party has suggested Britain scrap the Human Rights Act, the Labour party has organized a campaign with celebrities...
