Republican House leaders Thursday clarified the timing and purpose of proposed nationwide immigration hearings , deflecting criticism that the hearings were intended to delay a House vote on comprehensive immigration reform until after November elections....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday announced the entry into force of an Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
Thailand's Election Commission (EC) has determined that the ruling Thai Rak Thai political party broke two election laws by paying groups to run candidates in the annulled April parliamentary elections in...
If allowed to proceed, a lawsuit filed by an Oregon nonprofit organization challenging the NSA domestic surveillance program would impermissibly reveal state secrets, lawyers for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) argued at a Wednesday hearing...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told an Austrian radio station Thursday that European countries could help bring about the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center by accepting some detainees into their...
No evidence has surfaced to disprove the extraordinary rendition allegations of the German man who sued the US Central Intelligence Agency, a German prosecutor familiar with the evidence collected by the German government in the case said Thursday....
Iran has received nearly universal condemnation for selecting Tehran Prosecutor-General Saeed Mortazavi to attend the inaugural meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as an observer. Mortazavi is widely suspected of being present...
Canadian legal observers expressed concern Thursday that a new ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada will open courts to a flood of divorce litigation revolving around allegations of spousal misconduct, despite the terms of the 1985...
The US House Judiciary Committee passed a non-binding resolution Wednesday asking the President and the Secretary of Defense to provide the House with information on the NSA domestic surveillance program . The...
Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants have begun a hunger strike to protest the abduction and murder of a defense team lawyer in Baghdad early Wednesday morning. Leading defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi said the defendants would end...
