While noting that "many of our nations are making progress on human rights," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged nations belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement Friday to "fulfill their obligations...
A former lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission has said the agency ordered the destruction of a 2004 draft working paper that examined the effect of corporate group ownership on local television...
Texas' highest court for criminal cases announced Wednesday that it will consider whether to reinstate conspiracy charges against former US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) . The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...
President Bush's announcement that 14 terrorism suspects have been transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay is "significant" but not sufficient, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said through a spokesman...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 would allow CIA agents and others to use interrogation techniques not condoned by the US Department of Defense and would restrict federal courts' ability to...
Two days of court-ordered mediation have resulted in a $16.65 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee and 10 people who alleged they were sexually abused by a priest whom the diocese transferred to California,...
The government of Croatia has asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for amicus curiae status under Rule 74 of the ICTY Rules of Procedure and Evidence...
The US Department of Education gave personal data about several hundred student loan applicants to the FBI as part of an anti-terrorism program called Project Strikeback, the New York Times reported Friday....
The Israeli military court trying Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik and 18 Hamas cabinet ministers on charges of membership in a terrorist organization adjourned Thursday after granting defense lawyers two days...
Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has testified that amnesty laws preventing prosecution for human rights abuses during the so-called Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 80s helped to prevent rebellion during the transition...
