Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and political rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday announced legislation establishing a commission tasked with investigating the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential...
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday voted down a challenge to the constitutionality of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar's appointment, as Pakistani Law Minister Farooq H. Naek defended Dogar as the lawful chief justice. The PBC...
Rape and sexual warfare have been employed by the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as by rebel groups, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released ...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that a suspected Osama bin Laden associate, imprisoned for 32 years after stabbing a prison guard while in custody, may be resentenced according to...
US President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Monday that defined the primary objective of some 8600 federal agency employees to be national security-related, rendering them ineligible for Federal Labor-Management Relations Program [5 U.S.C. § 7101...
The Supreme Court of Nepal has directed the country's government to end sexual orientation-based discrimination and to extend equal rights to gender minorities, including same-sex marriage . The order, made Monday, came in a lawsuit...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Croatia accusing Serbia of genocide...
US Army Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. will face a court-martial for his alleged role in the killings of four Iraqis in April 2007 , after waiving his right to an Article 32 hearing Wednesday. In...
Russian State Duma officials said Wednesday they would expedite consideration of constitutional amendments submitted by President Dmitry Medvedev that would extend presidential and parliamentary terms. The Duma's constitutional...
Israeli deputy permanent representative to the UN Daniel Carmon on Tuesday accused the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of "targeting Israel in an obsessive and discriminatory fashion" and "fail to...
