The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a group of Nigerians living in the United States who sought to hold oil companies accountable for alleged human rights violations in Nigeria…
Antonio Trejo Cabrera, a human rights lawyer who represented agrarian groups against large landowners in Honduras, was killed Sunday while attending a wedding in the nation’s capital city Tegucigalpa.
The ABA is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal courts have jurisdiction to hear claims for international law violations that occur outside the United States.
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama had criticized then-President George W. Bush for using signing statements to ignore parts of legislation.
The ABA House of Delegates has supported a set of guiding principles for business and human rights after their adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Libya’s ouster from the United Nations Human Rights Council this spring is evidence of progress, according to participants at an ABA Annual Meeting program.
Washington-based governmental affairs lawyer Jared Genser last week left DLA Piper to start his own firm aimed at helping companies, nonprofits and governments establish humanitarian projects.
In an effort to prevent, or at least postpone, the execution of a U.S. prison inmate on death row, a London-based human rights group says it has filed or will…
A federal appeals court has ruled that a law used to collect damages in the United States for human rights abuses in other countries does not apply to corporations.
Law and international affairs leaders will be among a number of well-known attorneys showcased in an upcoming PBS series on human rights trials that is being produced by Penn State…
The same handgun that was used to kill a Russian judge outside his Moscow home this week also was the weapon used to murder a human rights attorney and a…
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