Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday urged lawmakers to reintroduce a clause guaranteeing a certain number of legislative seats to Christians and other religious minorities into the country's controversial provincial elections...
Egypt's Abbaseyya Appeals Court on Sunday upheld the conviction of the former editor of weekly newspaper al-Dustour for spreading "rumors" about the health of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in...
British music royalty collection society MCPS-PRS Alliance on Friday challenged a European Commission (EC) antitrust decision limiting the control such organizations have over copyright use agreements. In July, the EC ruled the current...
Business research firm TM Group released a report on Friday saying that the majority of UK lawyers are using client identification methods which do not comply with the county's anti-money-laundering regulations. According to the report,...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Minnesota Wednesday ordered a new trial for a woman who had been ordered to pay $222,000 to record companies for illegally posting...
Minority Rights Group International (MRGI) released a report Wednesday criticizing the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights for its failure to effectively institute a court to adjudicate human rights issues...
The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial bill providing for provincial elections in much of the country. Kurdish legislators had strongly opposed a provision establishing a provincial council in Kirkuk made up...
An en-banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday clarified the test to be used to determine whether a design patent has been infringed. The issue came...
Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP) chair Leila de Lima said Tuesday that torture is prevalent in the country's prison system and that her organization has documented over 300 cases of abuse in...
Stable, wealthier countries like Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand have the least perceived corruption and poorer, less stable countries like Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia have the most, according to government accountability advocacy group Transparency International (TI) ...
