UN special envoy for human rights defenders and co-founder of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Hina Jilani told US lawmakers in Washington Thursday that Pakistan's parliamentary elections scheduled for January 8 have already...

Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: 42 days, Joint Committee on Human Rights, December 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the report...

US District Judge Joan A. Lenard Thursday ordered a mistrial in a terrorism case against six men charged with allegedly conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami, after the jury...

The Spanish National Court Thursday dismissed a complaint against Cuban President Fidel Castro and former Cuban tourism minister Osmani Cienfuegos, alleging that the two had committed crimes against humanity. The complaint alleged that Castro and Cienfuegos were...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin said Thursday that the destruction of CIA videotapes suggests that US interrogators may have violated international prohibitions against torture. Scheinin told reporters after the...

The Supreme Court of South Korea Thursday upheld the sentence of Michael Jang, a Korean American convicted of spying for North Korea In April, the Seoul District Court in South Korea sentenced five people...

The US House of Representatives voted 222-199 Thursday to pass an intelligence funding bill that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only those interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual. Army...

A Philippine judge Thursday dismissed rebellion charges against former Vice President Teofisto Guingona , ruling that police had failed to establish his role in an aborted coup attempt against Philippine President Gloria Arroyo [official...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Thursday upheld a 1928 treaty between Nicaragua and Columbia that granted several small islands off the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua to Colombia. Nicaragua had brought suit...

Serbian President Boris Tadic has said that Serbia country is planning to file a petition with the UN Security Council seeking an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legality of independence for the...