This month, a Bombay high court sided with an atheist teacher, forcing the school to award him his pay raise and summarily acknowledging his constitutional rights.
The move to make virginity testing of high school girl students in Indonesia mandatory has drawn flak from activists, arguing it as discrimination against women and violation of human rights.
An application by the IRS to have a law suit against it lifted has been dismissed. U.S District court Judge Lynn Adelman overruled the application before him on August 19, 2013.
On Thursday, colleagues of a lawmaker who is openly gay silenced his attempt to speak about the decision of the Supreme Court to thump down the Defense of Marriage Act.
In the face of Defense Department allegations of discrimination, Kansas Republican lawmakers are seeking to get the Legislature to call upon U.S. Military officials to take an aggressive stand to protect the "Judeo-Christian tradition".
A Federal Court has found in favor of a teacher who brought a discrimination claim against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati in respect of her dismissal after becoming pregnant by artificial insemination.
A critically ill woman has been denied abortion by the Supreme Court of El Salvador; a decision that attracted instant criticism from women's rights and health groups across the world. El Salvador is majorly a Roman Catholic nation; hence, abortions are prohibited legally under all circumstances. In fact, protection of life "from the moment of conception" is a constitutional clause.
A ban on gay marriage and the outlawing of any groups found to be actively in support of the rights of gay people was voted into being during a Nigerian House of Representatives session on Thursday. The vote also endorsed having any couple of the same sex caught displaying affection in public sentenced to 10 years in prison.
