Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed legislation Thursday that would have reinstated the death penalty. Colom has stated that his government does not believe capital punishment improves a nation's security and has...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced Thursday that Britain's intellectual property laws will undergo a review with an eye towards modernization, in an effort to encourage innovation and small business. Cameron suggested that the law may be...
President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Judge Sang-Hyun Song , called Thursday on the international community to redouble its efforts to arrest eight suspects sought for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity or...
Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called Thursday for all Lebanese to boycott the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) , a probe into the assassination of former prime minister Rafik...
The Sri Lankan government on Thursday continued to defend the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), a government mandated probe into alleged rights violations committed during the end of the nation's civil war , against widespread criticism....
Rwandan Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga said Wednesday that US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder will be summoned to face charges of genocide denial in Rwanda. Erlinder, a defense lawyer at the...
The Obama administration on Thursday asked for a federal judge to stay her order requiring the US military to end enforcement of its controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy [10 USC § 654;...
A US military judge postponed the trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr Thursday while his lawyers attempted to reach a deal exchanging a guilty plea for leniency. The military...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced Thursday that it will review the involvement of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in the extraordinary rendition and torture of Khaled El-Masri...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and the International Crisis Group (ICG) , on Thursday declined an invitation from Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to testify before the probe investigating the end...
