The UK High Court on Monday denied a bid by a British lesbian couple married in Canada to have their marriage recognized by British law, saying that the traditional British definition of marriage refers only...
US federal judges grant and deny asylum to asylum seekers at a disparate rate in the United States, according a study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released Sunday. The report examined nearly 300,000 immigration...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday in the immediate wake of Israel's airstrike on the south Lebanon village of Qana that it was "alarmed" at what it described as the "recurring...
ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte has appealed the two-year prison sentence for Naser Oric , a former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in Srebrenica convicted of war crimes . The...
Sexual violence in US prisons, perpetrated by both inmates and prison staff, often goes unreported because abused inmates fear a reprisal or do not trust prison staff, according to a US Department of Justice report [text,...
A US Army soldier has said that the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Samarra on May 9 were deliberate murders covered-up by his squad of the Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division , according...
A Belgian ethnic Lebanese couple is preparing a legal complaint against Israel for alleged war crimes during the ongoing Mideast conflict after Ali Abdul-Sater and his wife had to flee Lebanon via Syria with their three...
A judge in Ontario Thursday upheld a publication ban on the bail hearings for 17 men accused of a terror plot in Canada . The Associated Press, the New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,...
The UN Human Rights Committee slammed current US rights practices in a report released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee...
Haitian authorities freed former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune from prison Thursday on a provisional release, though Neptune still faces charges that he calls "imaginary." Neptune has been detained for two years since former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide [BBC...
