Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Antonio Maria Costa on Monday opened a UN conference on international crime prevention by warning of the inadequacies of the current international crime control system. Costa...

DC-based consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch (FWW) filed suit in a US district court Monday against the US Department of Interior (DOI) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for an injunction...

Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva on Monday signed a bill that legalizes same-sex marriage but stops short of allowing same-sex couples to adopt. The bill was approved by the Portuguese...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged both the Thai government and anti-government protesters to seek a peaceful resolution to the current conflict . Expressing deep concern...

A Haitian court on Monday convicted US missionary Laura Silsby of attempting to illegally smuggle 33 Haitian children to the US through the Dominican Republic in the wake of the January 12 earthquake . Silsby was found...

US President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act , aimed at promoting worldwide press freedom and drawing attention to countries where journalists are threatened, harmed, or...

The appeals court for Iraq's Justice and Accountability Commission on Monday overturned a ban on nine newly elected members of parliament accused of having ties to the banned Baath Party .The ad hoc commission was created to eliminate...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday filed a class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Arizona seeking an injunction against the implementation of the...

The US Supreme Court on Monday held in Graham v. Florida that the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits the imprisonment of a...

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in Abbott v. Abbott that a ne exeat clause, which prohibits one parent from removing a child from the country...