The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for former spokesperson Florence Hartmann for nonpayment of a €7,000...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Tuesday remanded to state court the Mississippi attorney general's lawsuit against the administrator of the British Petroleum (BP) $20 billion...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Friday for an investigation of the previous day's aerial bombing of a refugee camp in Unity State in South Sudan. Refugees in the camp claimed to...
An internal UN conflict was publicized Friday concerning a dispute between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the judges he appointed to his employee rights safeguards tribunals. Just over two years after Ban instituted...
A Brazilian federal court ruled Wednesday that work on a dam being constructed on the Xingu River in the Amazon jungle may continue. The Federal Court of the First Region had ordered...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday denied a petition for rehearing regarding its unanimous decision to vacate a district court ruling that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC...
Mississippi voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution limiting the power of eminent domain in the state. The approved measure would prohibit, with certain exceptions, state and local government from...
The New Jersey Superior Court Friday ruled that a marriage equality lawsuit can continue, partially denying a motion to dismiss filed by the New Jersey Attorney General . Lambda...
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay praised the engagement of Moldova government officials Friday but noted troubling deficiencies in citizens' economic and social rights, during a press conference [statement,...
The corruption and war profiteering trial of former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader proceeded in Zagreb on Thursday with Sanader pleading not guilty to charges that he accepted a bribe in 1995. Sanader stands accused of corruption,...
