New York City reached a settlement Thursday with the 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who became sick or injured from responding to the 9/11 attacks . The agreement follows two failed settlement attempts between...

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday upheld a defendant's right to a publication ban that applies to the evidence and information produced at a bail hearing. Canadian media organizations have claimed that the statutory...

Forty-three countries on Wednesday announced their support for a new set of guidelines to ensure a more diligent effort is made to return real property seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust to its...

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the city could withhold documents related to the arrest of 1,800 protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention. In...

Several human rights and civil liberties groups on Wednesday filed a formal complaint with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) calling for an official investigation into a recent report alleging that the Central...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday convicted seven senior Bosnian Serb officials of war crimes against Bosnian Muslims committed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre ....

A Colombian judge on Wednesday issued a landmark judgment against army colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega for the forced disappearance of 11 people after the 1985 hostage situation at the Palace of Justice in Bogota, sentencing him to 30...

California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 14 , which alters the primary election system, creating an open primary where only the top two vote-getters would advance to the general election. The ballot initiative was approved by 54.2 percent ...

A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday introduced the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act , which would give presidents the authority to use a modified version of the line-item veto in order to cut spending. In a...

Amnesty International (AI) urged world leaders to strengthen the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to meet international human rights standards in a report released Wednesday. The report, From Promises to Delivery, focuses...