The US Senate on Thursday defeated a resolution aimed at limiting the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act . The...
Forty-three countries on Wednesday announced their support for a new set of guidelines to ensure a more diligent effort is made to return real property seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust to its...
Several human rights and civil liberties groups on Wednesday filed a formal complaint with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) calling for an official investigation into a recent report alleging that the Central...
A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday introduced the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act , which would give presidents the authority to use a modified version of the line-item veto in order to cut spending. In a...
A Chinese appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of earthquake activist Tan Zuoren who was sentenced in February to five years in prison on subversion charges. Tan was charged with and convicted of inciting subversion to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday renewed calls for Kenya to establish a special tribunal to investigate crimes committed following the 2007 presidential elections . Pillay called the investigation into...
The trial of accused "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel began Tuesday in a French court. Kerviel has been charged with breach of trust, forgery, and breaching IT access codes relating to $73 billion...
A UK plan that would return children who arrive in the country without a guardian to Afghanistan is being heavily criticized by human rights organizations and refugee advocacy groups. The UK plan calls for the building of a "reintegration...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order temporarily blocking the state of Arizona from releasing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates under the state's campaign finance reform law [Title 16,...
The head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , Carlos Castresana, resigned Monday, citing the country's failure to adequately cooperate in the fight against corruption. Castresana expressed his frustration with the process, indicating...
