The number of women incarcerated in the United States for periods longer than a year grew 757 percent between 1977 and 2004, with Oklahoma and Mississippi showing the greatest increases, according to a report released Sunday from the Women's...
The UN Committee against Torture has given Senegal 90 days to fulfill its obligations under the Convention Against Torture to put former Chad President Hissene Habre on trial for torture crimes...
US President George W. Bush on Monday evening announced the deployment of up to 6000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border as a prime element in a wide-ranging plan to 'fix' problems created by illegal immigration advanced in...
Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in the newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International , has agreed to cooperate with the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois ...
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday called for a "profound re-balancing of the civil liberties debate" in the United Kingdom as he announced a series of policy consultations over the next several months to discuss public...
Turkey will impose trade sanctions on France if the French parliament adopts a bill that would criminalize the denial that the World War I-era massacre of Armenians in Turkey constitutes genocide, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in four cases Monday, including eBay v. MercExchange , where the Court ruled that federal courts need not automatically issue a permanent...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia should undertake a series of reforms at its Scheveningen detention unit including reviewing arrangements to implement administrative court orders, separating detainees currently on trial or awaiting trial...
Saddam Hussein was formally charged Monday with murder, torture and illegally arresting 399 people in Dujail as part of a crackdown in the town after an assassination attempt on Hussein's life. Hussein's trial ...
September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has appealed both his life sentence on conspiracy charges and US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's decision to deny his motion to withdraw his guilty plea...
