The Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which along with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML(N)) will form Pakistan's new coalition government, vowed Tuesday to make Pakistan's judiciary fully independent. Asif Zardari , the new...
Mexico's lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies , on Tuesday passed a bill on Tuesday authorizing a variety of judicial reforms . With a vote...
Kenyan opposition leaders said Wednesday that they would begin renewed demonstrations next week if the government does not make progress on writing a new constitution. Negotiations between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga [campaign...
Russia Wednesday condemned a decision by the European Union to send a task force of police, prosecutors and judges into Kosovo to support the rule of law there after...
The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill legalizing euthanasia , in a move that could make Luxembourg the third European Union country to allow the controversial practice. Before...
Lawyers for a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005 filed motions Tuesday requesting that the charges be dropped . Lt. Col. Jeffrey...
Pakistani lawyers will resume protests in Islamabad unless the superior court judges ousted in November 2007 by President Pervez Musharraf are reinstated, Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said Wednesday. Ahsan, originally detained...
The United States engages in widespread and systematic racial discrimination in violation of its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) , human rights groups said Wednesday. US Human Rights Network...
Indictments for the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) still remain in effect despite a recent agreement between the LRA and the Ugandan government to establish a national war crimes court ,...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga Thursday agreed to write a new constitution, an agreement that could put an end to the violence that erupted in the wake of January's disputed presidential...
