The High Court of Australia on Thursday struck down an amendment to Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Act passed in 2006 that took voting rights away from all prisoners regardless of the length of their sentence,...
The Chinese National People's Congress passed anti-monopoly legislation Thursday aimed at protecting China's economic security and easing the Chinese economy away from state-run monopolies. The new law establishes a series of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday blocked the Attorney General of Louisiana from filing suit on behalf of nearly 35,000 Hurricane Katrina victims against the US Army Corps of Engineers under the...
Hezbollah recklessly and sometimes intentionally fired rockets at civilian targets during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict , according to a 128-page report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). Hezbollah was not legally justified...
Russian prosecutors have released two of the 10 suspects who were arrested Monday in connection with last October's killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , and a third person is no...
As some 700,000 secularist Turks took to the streets of Istanbul Sunday demanding the resignation of Turkey's government, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul , a member of the ruling Islamist-rooted Justice...
German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck says that he will refile a war crimes complaint against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Spain with the help of Spanish counterparts after the German Federal Prosecutor's office...
China's government continued its campaign against corrupt public officials Sunday by unveiling a set of new rules aimed at ensuring the integrity of public servants. The proposed 55-article regulation will take effect on June 1. The...
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Saturday that NATO will investigate allegations of human rights violations committed by Afghan prison officials. Scheffer's comments follow allegations made by Canadian human...
The American Bar Association (ABA) Friday criticized a US Department of Justice proposal that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees should be subject to tightened restrictions , including limited access to...
