The Egyptian government has said that it will not deport hundreds of Sudanese detainees who lack status as refugees or asylum seekers. The detainees were arrested after a three-month sit-in protest in front of UN offices in Cairo resulted...
Cambodian President Hun Sen has said that a court has refused to allow him to drop criminal defamation charges against a group of human rights activists, as he had promised last week. In a speech...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that Kosovo has not moved quickly enough to implement international standards of human rights, democraticization, ethnic tolerance and law enforcement. The Serbian province, under UN administration...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has complained to Washington that the United States violated its sovereignty in a recent air strike on a village near the Afghanistan border. The failed January 13 attack ...
France's highest judicial authority will rule on a controversial measure requiring French history teachers to stress the positive aspects of French colonialism. President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that he would refer the law , passed...
The number of targeted assassinations of journalists is on the rise, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Monday in its annual report, Targeting and Tragedy: Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2005 [PDF...
Activists around the country marked the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade with demonstrations on Sunday. In Minnesota, San Francisco, Idaho and Michigan, hundreds of anti-abortion and abortion rights demonstrators gathered in front of state capitols. Activists in...
The UK High Court on Tuesday ruled that David Hicks , the Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay for over three years, should be registered as a British citizen. Hicks, whose mother was...
Prosecutors have asked that the the trial of US Rep. Tom DeLay be postponed while they appeal the dismissal of felony conspiracy charges against him. Texas Judge Pat Priest threw out the conspiracy charge...
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Monday that outbreaks of racial violence that began in Sydney Sunday could undermine the country's strict new anti-terror law by making it more difficult for police to build...
