Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, June 4, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Sotomayor Questionnaire...

The US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on Thursday heard testimony on the state secrets privilege in advance of consideration of the State Secret Protection Act...

Rights groups on Thursday called for Russia to enforce European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgments regarding human rights violations in Chechnya . Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Memorial Human Rights Center and...

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism has laid out plans to establish a global tribunal to prosecute private companies accused of human rights abuses. In an interview last week with the Commonwealth Secretariat...

North Korean state media outlet Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced Thursday that the Pyongyang Central Court has begun the trial of two US journalists . Laura Ling and Euna...

The Council of the European Union agreed Thursday on parameters for the acceptance of released Guantanamo Bay detainees by European Union (EU) member states. The council concluded that those member...

Human rights and democracy advocates on Thursday called on the Chinese government to investigate the 1989 uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square , to release people imprisoned in connection with the uprising and human rights advocacy, to provide an...

The president of the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden , the highest court in the Netherlands, on Thursday called for a code of conduct for politicians limiting their public statements on court rulings, after comments he says...

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a federal statute that gave immunity to telecom companies from liability associated with assisting the National Security Agency (NSA) with eavesdropping, dismissing 46 lawsuits against the telecom...

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the US government will begin to enforce immigration policy more strictly by targeting employers directly , rather than through continued use of controversial...