Doudou Diene , the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, is visiting the US this week to gather first-hand information on issues of race relations ....

American Council of the Blind v. Paulson, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, May 20, 2008 [ruling that the US paper currency discriminates against visually-impaired citizens in violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is pursuing fraud charges against four former Time Warner executives for their alleged involvement in a 2000-2002 plot to defraud investors by inflating advertising revenue, according to Monday reports....

UK legislators Monday voted 336-176 against a proposed ban on the use of human-animal hybrid embryo stem cells in scientific and medical research. The decision was highly controversial, with many...

New Zealand's Human Rights Commission announced Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a measure to establish an anti-corruption council to be headed by Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin , Medvedev announced at a Monday press conference . Medvedev said that...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Demjanjuk v. Mukasey , ending the appeals process of a deportation order for accused former Nazi concentration camp guard and Ohio resident John...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally received cash from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving as a minister of industry, trade and labor, a state prosecutor said Monday in a hearing at the Supreme...

The Iranian government is engaged in systematic human rights abuses, an Iranian human rights group said in an annual report released Sunday. The Defenders of Human Rights Centre, a group founded and headed by 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua told AFP Sunday that he would resign if the Supreme Court of Nigeria invalidated his victory in the disputed 2007 presidential election . In March, Nigerian opposition leader and presidential...