The United Nations has a "moral duty to act on the lessons of Rwanda," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in an address to mark the fourteenth anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five former San Diego city officials in federal court Monday, alleging they committed securities fraud by failing to disclose funding shortfalls in the city's pension and health care plans to potential...

Zimbabwean police have arrested at least five election officials for allegedly under-counting votes for current Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the March 29 presidential election , police officials confirmed Monday. Independent observers say...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed and vacated a jury award of $2.5 million in punitive damages awarded to a Mississippi couple who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina...

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav rejected a controversial plea agreement Tuesday, opting instead to face rape charges first brought against him in 2006. Under the terms of the plea agreement, which was upheld...

A court in the Philippines on Tuesday sentenced nine military officers to prison for their participation in a failed 2003 coup against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . No shots were fired during the...

Norman J. Broussard, et al., v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, April 7, 2008 [reversing and vacating a jury award of $2.5 million in punitive damages to a Mississippi couple who...

The US Department of Defense said Monday that charges have been referred against Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Kamin, who is accused of providing material support to terrorism . If...

New EU anti-terror laws proposed by the European Commission fail to adequately reconcile human rights concerns and may conflict with the Council of Europe's Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism , Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly...

Slovakia has signed an enforcement of sentences agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to allow ICTY convicts to be held in Slovakian prisons, the ICTY announced [press...