The Parliament of Kenya met Thursday to discuss a power sharing deal between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga that could put an end the violence that began...
Spanish National Court Judge Baltasar Garzon Thursday dropped an extradition request against two UK residents formerly held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay prison after finding that they...
The number of discrimination charges against private employers filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) increased by nine percent in 2007 , the biggest annual increase since the early 1990s, according to EEOC statistics...
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US Senate Judiciary Committee in testimony Wednesday that the FBI had inappropriately accessed private citizens' communication and financial records in 2006 through national security letters (NSLs) [FAS backgrounder; example,...
A former Bosnian Serb leader who was convicted in 2004 of war crimes committed during the Bosnian War has been transferred to a Danish prison, a Danish Ministry of Justice spokesman...
Serbian Justice Minister Dusan Petrovic signed an extradition request Thursday for the widow and son of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic . Mirjana Markovic and her son Marko currently...
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque signed two international human rights treaties on Thursday, making Cuba party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
A key witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been moved into hiding after being threatened for testifying before the Special Court for Sierra Leone...
Turkey's main pro-secular opposition party appealed to the nation's Constitutional Court Wednesday to overturn recently approved amendments to the country's constitution easing a ban on Islamic headscarves in universities. The Republican People's...
A Spanish National Court judge Wednesday acquitted 20 suspected terrorists of the most serious charges related to an alleged plot to bomb the National Court in Madrid but convicted them on lesser charges ....
