The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to adopt a new anti-corruption law to comply with the UN Convention against Corruption . The new plan will be created by the state's Audit Bureau which...
Both sides in the case of former Kenyan minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang announced on Monday that the trial will start next March before the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite the election...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Monday began reviewing the case of Mohammed Momin Khawaja . The review will mainly focus on the constitutionality of the term "terrorist activity" in the Anti-Terrorism Act...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Evans v. Michigan to determine whether the double jeopardy clause bars retrial after the trial judge erroneously holds a...
The State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Monday published its second National Human Rights Action Plan . The plan succeeds a previous plan covering 2009-2010 period and will address...
More than 1,300 people filed a criminal complaint on Monday against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and for the plaintiffs' resulting radiation. The...
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday reported the court's Completion Strategy to the UN Security Council . In his address , Brammertz...
Michel Frost, the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, renewed his call on Wednesday to UN member states to cease the deportation of Haitian citizens to Haiti . In his report ...
Lawyers for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo requested on Thursday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) postpone the confirmation of charges hearing which is scheduled for June 18. The lawyers argued...
The Canadian Department of Justice on Thursday refused to acknowledge last week's criticism from the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) that Canada has been complicit in torture. During a court hearing in Ottawa for Abdullah...
