Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks , known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," died Monday evening at her home in Detroit. She was 92. Parks was best known for her arrest after refusing to give up...
Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the Afghanistan magazine Haqooq-i-Zan (translated as Women's Rights), was sentenced Sunday to two years in jail after being convicted of blasphemy for his publication of anti-Islamic articles. On Saturday, Kabul's Primary Court convicted Mohaqiq...
The number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons in 2004 was up by four percent compared with the year before, with women making up seven percent of all inmates, according to a report issued Sunday...
The United Nations has repeated its statements that abuses by coalition forces in Afghanistan are "totally unacceptable" and an "affront to the work of the international community in Afghanistan" after Australian TV broadcast video last week showing US soldiers...
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday that US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , a longtime friend and legal counsel to President Bush, lacks the requisite votes to be approved by the Senate. Schumer's comments...
The Israeli Supreme Court has authorized the construction of the West Bank security fence across Palestinian land. Last month, the Court ruled that Israel had a right to construct the barrier to...
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Monday signed legislation to let the 13 hotel-casinos destroyed by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt 800 feet inland, despite opposition from religious conservatives. The law was approved in a special legislative...
Officials from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq resumed counting ballots Tuesday as part of an effort to recheck an unusually high number of votes in this weekend's referendum on the Iraqi constitution [JURIST news...
US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Tuesday will turn in her responses to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire devised to reveal how she might rule on cases brought before the Supreme...
UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said Sunday that although he agreed with the Government's position that extended periods of custody in detaining terror suspects were needed, detainments must be monitored by a judge. Speaking on BBC television's...
