A spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki said Tuesday that Mbeki has challenged in the county's Constitutional Court allegations that he interfered with a case against Mbeki's political rival and current African...

Complaints filed with a Senegal prosecutor last week by fourteen Chadian and Senegalese citizens alleging that former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre was responsible for war crimes and torture are merely "judicial persecution,"...

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo traveled to New York Monday to seek support from members of the United Nations and the African Union for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC...

Human Rights Watch(HRW) on Monday called on the Saudi Arabian government to end its 'systematic discrimination' against its Ismaili religious minority . HRW urged Saudi officials to create a national institution to recommend...

Stable, wealthier countries like Denmark, Sweden, and New Zealand have the least perceived corruption and poorer, less stable countries like Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia have the most, according to government accountability advocacy group Transparency International (TI) ...

A legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an opinion Tuesday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. ECJ Advocate General Jan...

US Senate Democrats on Monday questioned the constitutionality of the Bush administration's proposal to stabilize financial markets and introduced their own plan allowing courts to review purchases of troubled assets by the Treasury Department...

The Canadian Federal Court granted a last-minute stay of removal Monday for US Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman . Hinzman fled to Canada from the US in January 2004 after leaving his unit, rather than deploy...

The chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a government motion Friday to extend from August 30 to September 30 its deadline to file the first fifty factual returns...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Department of Defense must release certain photographs of alleged detainee abuse committed by US soldiers serving in Iraq and...