A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Sunday called a report released last week by the UN Committee Against Torture prejudiced and false. The Committee's report...
President of the Global Justice Center Janet Benshoof said Thursday that judges who participated in the trials and convictions of 60 political activists in Myanmar last week are...
Private security contractors operating in Iraq will no longer be able to claim immunity from Iraqi laws under the new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the Iraqi government, Bush administration officials said...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that tribal sovereign immunity applies to lawsuits brought in federal court dealing with the profit-making businesses of Indian tribes. In Cook...
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Sunday that settlers in a disputed house in the West Bank city of Hebron have three days to evacuate or else face eviction. The four-story home, called the House of...
Switzerland's Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (FDFA) condemned Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem as a violation of international humanitarian law in a statement Thursday and called on Israel to stop...
The parliament of Algeria approved a constitutional amendment Wednesday that removed the law limiting the country's president to two terms in office. In a joint vote, both houses of the Algerian parliament, the Council of Nation [official...
The British government has revoked the visa of former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra , and his wife Pojamarn Shinawatra according to media reports Saturday. The couple had been residing in Britain prior to Thaksin's...
The Indonesian attorney general's office Sunday confirmed that three men convicted for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed 202 people were executed by firing squad just after midnight Saturday local time. The executions were carried out...
Voters in Nevada Tuesday approved a ballot initiative that would restrict the state's ability to use eminent domain law to acquire private property. The initiative includes amendments to the Nevada State Constitution ...
