The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) demanded Tuesday that Albania and Kosovo investigate and prosecute alleged incidents of organ trafficking, inhuman treatment and other crimes by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [official...
UN rights officials on Wednesday expressed "grave concerns" over continued post-election violence in the Ivory Coast , cautioning that genocide could be imminent . During a daily briefing, UN Special Advisor on Genocide Francis...
Former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC Profile; JURIST news archive was charged Tuesday with corruption, theft, misappropriation of funds and other unnamed crimes. Duvalier underwent several hours of questioning, and, although he was released, he does not have the...
The Italian Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down portions of a law backed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that would have granted Berlusconi and other public officials...
China has failed to achieve the goals it set out in its first national human rights plan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) declared in a report released on Tuesday. In its assessment of the government's National Human...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled unanimously Tuesday that California's Mount Soledad cross, a 43-foot cross erected as a Korean War veterans' memorial, is unconstitutional under the...
Spanish National Court judge Fernando Andreu on Tuesday issued a writ to pursue an investigation against Iraqi Lieutenant General Abdol Hossein Al Shemmari for allegedly ordering a July 2009 strike against Iranian exiles at Camp Ashraf...
Toyota Motor Corporation settled US federal investigations on Tuesday by agreeing to pay a record $32.4 million in extra fines for product defects and poor handling of a recall. The fines stem from two...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Scotland has violated the media's right to report on trials and challenge court orders. The ECHR found the UK and Scotland in violations of articles...
On Tuesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to pay an undetermined amount to Guinea for the 1988 arbitrary imprisonment of a Guinean businessman. The tribunal found [judgment,...
