The US government's human rights record came under criticism Friday during the country's first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . Among the criticisms leveled at the US were the treatment...

A UK High Court in London began hearings Friday to determine whether abuse claims brought by 142 Iraqis against UK military personnel should be subject to public inquiry after Defence Secretary Liam Fox refused...

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Hassan Bubacar Jallow filed new applications Thursday for the referral of three cases for trial in Rwanda. The first was Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi...

The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of State Question 755 , which amends the state constitution to ban the use of...

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster (D) announced Thursday that he, along with 12 other state attorneys general, has filed an amici curiae brief before the US Supreme Court supporting an...

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...

The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday suspended the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for a month. The postponement...

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...

The US District Court Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging three men with providing material support to Somali-based Islamic terrorist organization al Shabaab . The October 21...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday dismissed claims challenging the Obama Administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, which was enacted following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...