The US Army on Tuesday set a trial date for Lt. Col. Steven Lee Jordan , the only military officer to face charges in connection with abuses of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news...

US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced a bill Tuesday entitled the "Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007" designed to protect the personal information of American consumers. The legislation resembles...

Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Inc., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, February 6, 2006 [ruling that a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for allegedly discriminating against female employees should go to trial, upholding a 2004 certificate of the...

Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen born in Germany and formerly held at Guantanamo Bay , plans to request the release of secret military documents pertaining to his detention, according to...

The Ku Klux Klan is experiencing "a surprising and troubling resurgence" largely on the issue of Hispanic immigration, according to a report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) . In...

US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that thirteen or more federal prosecutors who have been removed over the past two years were not victims of political...

A judge has ruled that Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and former PM Silvio Berlusconi will not give evidence at the preliminary hearing of Nicolo Pollari, the former head of Italian Intelligence and...

The Inter-American Conference on Human Rights (IACHR) has scheduled a hearing to explore whether failing to curb greenhouse gas emissions constitutes a human rights violation. The environmental group EarthJustice announced Tuesday that...

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights announced Tuesday that UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston will go to the Philippines next week to...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to reject a proposed amnesty resolution that would grant pardons for crimes committed during the 25 years of war in Afghanistan , according to spokesman Karim Rahimi...