The House just passed the biggest bank deregulation bill in a generation On Thursday, Capitol Hill was consumed by former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony. But just after the high-profile hearing played out in the Hart
Published : 08 June 2017Trump Names BP Oil Spill Lawyer as Top Environmental Attorney President Donald Trump announced Tuesday his intention to nominate Jeffrey Bossert Clark—who defended BP in lawsuits surrounding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and challenged
Published : 07 June 2017Huge victory for Kenya’s Ogiek as African Court sets major precedent for indigenous peoples’ land rights Minority Rights Group International (MRG) wholeheartedly applauds an historic judgment from the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in Arusha today
Published : 26 May 20172018 reporting period will prove critical for New Urban Agenda, advocates say Labels NAIROBI—Although 2017 is not yet halfway over, advocates for the New Urban Agenda on sustainable cities already are looking to next year as critical
Published : 11 May 2017Al Haq, a HIC Member organization in Palestine, has announced its third International Law Summer School for international post-graduate law students and legal researchers in Ramallah, Occupied Palestine on 08 August - 22 August 2017.
Published : 02 May 2017On Israel’s Independence Day, the executive board of the UN education, science and cultural agency slams Israel for “persistent excavations, tunneling, works and projects in East Jerusalem” and calls on the occupying power to end
Published : 02 May 2017On the occasion of the Palestinian prisoners’ ongoing hunger strike, we remind readers that persons incarcerated and deprived of their freedom also have the human right to adequate housing. Their steadfastness is inextricable from the
Published : 02 May 2017The powers that be in Sipasarubali, Odisha work to take over forest land to build a beach resort, villagers who are trying to fight them are under attack. Puri, Odisha: On April 28, a friend and I went
Published : 02 May 2017Israel to build 25,000 new settlement units in Jerusalem For two years, the Israeli government has been planning to build 25,000 new settlement units in Jerusalem, an Israeli minister with knowledge of the plans revealed
Published : 29 April 2017