The Canadian Federal Court ruled in two separate opinions Thursday that media comments by Quebec Justice John Gomery , who led the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal involving the Liberal Party and...
East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta Friday declined what he described as an offer to become the next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, despite having told parliament last week that he had...
US President George W. Bush Thursday announced plans to remove North Korea from a State Department list of terror sponsors . The move comes after the North Korean government presented China with a detailed report...
India's National Human Rights Commission should create a special department to investigate deaths in police custody, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) said in a Wednesday report . The report found...
A UK High Court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to force the government to put the ratification of the new EU reform treaty , known as the Treaty of Lisbon ,...
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai , presidential candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) , Wednesday called for the United Nations and African leaders to lead a settlement process aimed at ending the...
The Italian Senate , the upper house of the country's parliament, approved public safety legislation Wednesday containing provisions to suspend older trials for nonviolent crimes, including corruption proceedings...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to delay a by-election scheduled for Thursday in the district of the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile;...
The Pakistan government will challenge Monday's Lahore High Court ruling blocking Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from running in upcoming parliamentary elections, current...
The UN Security Council condemned the increasing violence against opposition activists and politicians in Zimbabwe in a presidential statement issued Monday. The statement calls on the government of Zimbabwe to "stop the violence, to cease political...
