Singaporean human rights group SG Human Rights called Sunday for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to split off the human rights section of its proposed new charter into a separate treaty. Chapter 14...
The Parliament of the Georgian Republic approved a presidential decree on Thursday bringing an end to the country's national state of emergency effective Friday. Chairwoman of the Parliament Nino Burjanadze announced the decision...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to decide this week if a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies that...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused the US military on Sunday of thwarting Iraqi attempts to execute Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in Western media as "Chemical Ali," and two other former...
A resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been introduced before the United Nations General Assembly. Over 70 states have backed the proposal, which will be voted...
A top official with the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) said Sunday that an unsuccessful bid by a French charity to fly 103 children out of Chad late last month violated international law....
The Florida Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Thursday upholding the state's lethal injection procedures and rejecting the assertion that the state's protocol constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." The US Supreme Court currently has on...
China's National People's Congress (NPC) Sunday adopted a draft amendment to the country's Law on Lawyers that will grant defense lawyers more power in criminal prosecutions. The amendment, the first since the original law's implementation in...
Two websites with ties to Yemen's government Sunday denied earlier assertions that Jamal al-Badawi , one of the masterminds behind the 2000 terror attack on the USS Cole , had...
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday agreed to hear an appeal over the asserted right of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to see thousands of pages of Canadian government documents related to his...
