"No girl can get used to becoming a mother without having the natural development in their bodies and minds," she said.

Lynn Fitch is the attorney general of Mississippi. The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the ...

WITH A STRONG majority, Slovak legislators passed a revised Penal Code that toughens sentences for dangerous criminals and decreases the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 years old. WITH A ...

Haitian President Jovenel Moise's new penal code, which legalizes abortion and lowers the legal age for consensual sex to 15, has drawn the ire of lawmakers. Former Senator Jean Renel Senatus said the ...

(Amman) – Jordan should strengthen proposed amendments to its 1960 penal code to better protect human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour released today. The ...

The government will undertake discussions on the proposed amendments to the Penal Code dealing with corporal punishment, including those in the education and health sectors, to ensure that the law ...

Amendments to the Penal Code and other legislation have been proposed to further rationalise Singapore's criminal laws, ...

(New York) - The Cambodian government's use of its new penal code against a man who shared web articles with his co-workers is a huge step backward for free expression in Cambodia, Human Rights Watch ...

Bill, which seeks to ban corporal punishment, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today the government will not enact in ...

Sarvajana Balaya’ leader and Member of Parliament Dilith Jayaweera says he is glad that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has heeded their consistent critique of a policy measure that would have “irr ...