Mexican President Felipe Calderon Thursday signed a decree decriminalizing libel and defamation, offenses previously punishable by prison sentences. Henceforward they will be punishable by fine and subject to civil suits. The move has already garnered the approval...
Russia's Foreign Ministry Thursday assailed a new human rights report critical of Russia issued last week by the US Department of State , claiming that the United States is using human rights as a pretense to...
A Quebec Superior Court judge Thursday postponed the war crimes trial of Desiré Munyaneza after he was severely beaten in his cell by another prisoner Wednesday night. The former Rwandan militia commander is charged...
Jordan demonstrated a poor human rights record in 2006, according to a report released Tuesday by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) . The report singled out for particular criticism the country's controversial...
Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva Tuesday approved a law permitting abortions during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The Portuguese parliament passed the law last month after a February referendum on...
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine Tuesday delayed a scheduled hearing on the legality of an April 2 decree by President Viktor Yushchenko dissolving parliament and calling for...
The US soldier responsible for the death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq in March 2005 told the New York Post Monday that he fired on Calipari's vehicle in self-defense. Calipari...
Canada, Sweden and Eritrea are pressuring Ethiopia to reveal details regarding the foreign nationals it has allegedly detained in secret prisons in collaboration with the FBI and CIA . The existence of prisons in which...
The Serbian Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of Anton Lekaj , the first ethnic Albanian to be convicted by a Serb court of war crimes in the Kosovo region. A member of the Kosovo Liberation...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour released two reports Friday detailing alleged rapes and disappearances carried out by militia soldiers in the Darfur region of Sudan at the end of...
