The Special Court for Sierra Leone on Monday resumed the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor with testimony from the prosecution's first witness, a Canadian expert on so-called "blood diamonds"...
The Austrian Parliament passed legislation setting a complete ban on cluster munitions Thursday, and making a disarmament goal to destroy Austria's stockpile of approximately 10,000 devices over three years. Austria is the second...
A legal challenge has been filed to the eligibility of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as a candidate in the upcoming January parliamentary election, an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) official said...
The US Department of Homeland Security fails to provide adequate medical care to HIV-positive immigration detainees, according to a report issued Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW said DHS policies do...
The Supreme Court of Peru Monday sentenced 10 former cabinet officials from the government of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for their involvement in the government's seizure of power from...
The North Korean government is stepping up the use of public executions, South Korean aid agency Good Friends said Monday. Good Friends said that the regime is targeting public officials accused of crimes such as...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by subjecting individuals returning from an annual...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday pushed for a life sentence for Father Athanase Seromba , arguing that Seromba's 15 year prison sentence for committing genocide and extermination...
A Russian court ruled against former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov Monday, denying Kasparov's appeal and ordering him to serve a five day jail sentence [JURIST...
Human rights groups Amnesty International and JUSTICE Monday argued against the UK government's proposal to extend the pre-charge detention period of suspected terrorists from 28 days to 56 days, saying separately that the extended detention is neither...
