2007 Report on International Religious Freedom, US Department of State, September 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Google called for new international laws to protect personal information online at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conference Friday, urging that an international body such as the...

China's Supreme People's Court handed down anticipated new guidelines for capital punishment cases Thursday, saying that swift executions should only be imposed on people who have committed heinous crimes, with "ironclad evidence...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be allowed to return to Pakistan to campaign for office but will face corruption charges , the Pakistani government said Friday. Bhutto, who left the country in 1999 under...

A US delegation walked out of a conference on victims of terrorism hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thursday, protesting the OSCE's refusal to allow the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society [advocacy...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday called on state members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to open their records and allow the Council to adhere...

The UN General Assembly Thursday adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a non-binding treaty outlining the global human rights of approximately 370 million indigenous people and bans discrimination against them....

Canadian chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand Thursday resisted calls by Canadian lawmakers to invoke his discretionary powers, reserved for exceptional circumstances, to require women to remove traditional Muslim niqabs or burqas when they vote...

The US Department of Defense released censored audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Thursday after months of controversy. The recording...

Kenyan lawmakers have approved a bill limiting the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to investigating crimes committed after 2003. The amendment, deleting portions of the 2003 Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act , will make it impossible for the...