The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced Tuesday that UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston will go to the Philippines next week to...
Texas Senator Jane Nelson (R) , Chairwoman of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission , urged Texas Governor Rick Perry Tuesday to rescind his executive order making Texas the first US state to require...
About 60 nations pledged Tuesday to refrain from the illegal and unacceptable use of child soldiers in armed conflicts during the second day of Free Children from War , a global conference in Paris. Hosted by...
The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) promised to continue fighting to adopt legislation that would grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships after Australia's attorney general recommended Tuesday that the country's federal government overturn a proposed...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton Monday authorized public release of audio recordings of the secret grand jury testimony of former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after they are played at...
Eight former Bangladeshi ministers face allegations of corruption Monday after Bangladeshi security forces arrested 13 former ministers and senior politicians in raids in Dhaka Sunday. The government cited recently promulgated emergency powers as the basis for the...
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy Monday cautioned countries against the illegal and unacceptable use of child soldiers in armed conflicts at the opening of Free Children from War , a two-day global conference in Paris drawing...
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy warned Monday against apologizing for crimes committed during France's colonization of Algeria. His comments came in response to remarks made Sunday by prominent a French Socialist Party (PS) leader who...
A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered the National Intelligence Center , Spain's state intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about secret CIA extraordinary rendition flights . The order comes in Judge Ismael Moreno's investigation...
Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi said Wednesday that the Sudanese government can do a better job prosecuting war crimes in Darfur than the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In an interview with AP, al-Mardi reiterated Sudan's position...
