Sudan Justice Minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat said Monday that a special prosecutor named to investigate and try war crimes suspects from the country's Darfur region has almost completed reports on some crimes in the region,...

Judge Fausto Pocar , President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called Monday for the arrest of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic and Croatian Serb leader...

The UK House of Lords on Monday rejected a proposal supported by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to increase the amount of time authorities may detain terrorism suspects without charge. The upper house of Parliament voted 309-118 to...

Justice ministers of countries belonging to the League of Arab States said Monday that the International Criminal Court has 'no sound legal basis' to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir...

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint alleging that the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's incited hatred toward Muslims. The commission ruled Friday that a 2006 article by conservative writer Mark...

The European Union Monday temporarily suspended its travel ban on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and several other Belarussian officials following the first high-level talks between Belarus and the EU in four years. A...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday encouraged the Ethiopian parliament to reject the draft Charities and Societies Proclamation , which HRW officials concluded in a report would severely undermine human rights efforts in the...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadly interpreted rules protecting the content of databases from copying, regardless of how the information is extracted from its source. The court was considering a lawsuit filed...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) released a ruling Sunday indicating that Guantanamo detainees who represent themselves at trial are not entitled to Internet access and some computer hardware and software to aid in their defense. Military...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Sunday approved measures that would liberalize the country's land use laws in an effort decrease rural poverty and increase the country's agricultural capacity. Under...