UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday released a report outlining plans to give the European Union (EU) a greater role in implementing the rule of law in Kosovo. The...
Ethiopian human rights practices in the eastern Ogaden region have come under attack in a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) , made public Thursday. The report details atrocities committed by both the...
The Arizona State Legislature passed legislation Wednesday barring the state from implementing the REAL ID Act of 2005 . The Arizona House voted 51-1 for the bill Wednesday; the Arizona...
Convicted rapist and murderer Karl Eugene Chamberlain was executed by lethal injection at a Texas prison Wednesday evening. His death marked the state's first execution since the US Supreme Court's April ruling in Baze v....
Singapore Second Foreign Minister Raymond Lim said in a speech Wednesday that the new human rights body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should not set initial standards too high for the organization's...
The Supreme Court of Israel Wednesday upheld a controversial law allowing the government to detain unlawful combatants suspected of belonging to terrorist groups. The Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law allows the Chief of the...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Friday denied a request to extradite genocide suspect Gaspard Kanyarukiga to Rwanda for trial. The former businessman is said to have planned and supervised large-scale...
The White House announced Monday that US President George W. Bush signed an executive order Friday directing all federal departments and agencies to require government contractors to use the US Department of Homeland...
Fourteen accused Zayidi Shi'ite rebels, among them outspoken Yemeni journalist Abdel Karim al-Khaywani , were sentenced in a Yemeni court Monday for their roles in an ongoing Shi'ite uprising. Thirteen of the rebels received sentences of...
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be released from detention Monday to seek US treatment for health issues including high blood pressure and severe ear and eye conditions. Bangladesh's emergency government charged Hasina...
