A federal shield law would help reporters and editors do their jobs, but the primary beneficiaries would be the American ...

Uganda’s Kill the Gays law, signed in 2023, is among the most notorious, imposing a death sentence for the crime of ...

Iraq is set to change its laws to allow men to marry girls as young as nine and strip women of rights around divorce, child custody and inheritance.The country’s ruling conservative Shia Muslim ...

Sharia law is derived from the Quran as well as writings ... proposed by Iraq were put forward in 2014 and 2017 but failed to pass due to nationwide outcry, Amnesty has said.

Iraq is set to change its laws to allow men to marry girls as young as nine and strip women of rights around divorce, child custody and inheritance. The country’s ruling conservative Shia Muslim ...

It also prohibits laws against people or doctors helping someone obtain an abortion. With the passage of the proposition, lawmakers are unable to pass laws restricting abortion access due to the ...

Bahrain's Parliament has unanimously passed a law requiring private healthcare providers to maintain a minimum 50% Bahraini workforce. While supporting the initiative to boost local employment ...

Russian MPs on Tuesday passed in the final third reading controversial legislation banning "propaganda" of choosing not to ...