UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respect international standards of due process during the...
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DRC urged to respect international standards of due process in activist’s murder case
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Elderly woman petitions Supreme Court to expedite DOMA challenge
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Pakistan court rejects 2008 Mumbai attacks report
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Transnational organized crime threatening international security: UN
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UN rights chief urges states to consider proposal to strengthen rights treaty body
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Romania will need 50 percent turnout in national referendum to oust president
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Oman court sentences rights activists for slandering ruler
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Hungary top court strikes down mandatory retirement age for judges
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Guantanamo hearing for accused 9/11 conspirators delayed for Ramadan
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Nazi war crimes suspect allegedly in Hungary
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An elderly New York woman petitioned the US Supreme Court on Monday to hear her challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Edith Schlain Windsor, 83, successfully sued the US government [complaint,...
An anti-terrorism court judge in Pakistan ruled Tuesday that a report compiled by a nine-member judiciary committee, which includes statements of the witnesses in India, could not be used in cases related to the 2008 Mumai terror attacks [BBC...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Monday that turnover from transnational organized criminal networks is estimated to be around $870 billion a year . With the statement, the UNODC launched its global awareness-raising...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged member states to consider proposals to strengthen the world's human rights treaty body system. At an informal meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, Pillay...
Romanian interim president Crin Antonescu signed a law Monday requiring that at least 50 percent of the electorate turn out for the July 29 national referendum to decide whether suspended president Traian Basescu [official website,...
An Omani court on Monday sentenced six human rights activists to between 12 and 18 months in prison for social media posts that were deemed to be slander against the country's ruler, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday. Badr...
The Constitutional Court of Hungary on Monday ruled that a new law lowering the mandatory retirement age for the country's judges is unconstitutional. The court held that the new law, which...
The next hearing for alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four codefendants was postponed on Monday to avoid a conflict with the last 10 days of Ramadan. The chief judge of the Guantanamo...
Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human...
