The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed war crimes charges Monday against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga , making Lubanga the first ICC defendant to face trial. As founder of the militant Union of...

Anti-abortion protestors took to the streets in Lisbon, Portugal Sunday in advance of a referendum vote scheduled for February 11 in which voters will decide whether to ease restrictions imposed by the current Portuguese abortion law...

Lawyers for Nicolo Pollari, the former head of the Italian Intelligence and Security Services (SISMI) , moved Monday to stop Pollari's trial on charges that he was involved in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP...

Libya is willing to release of five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children in exchange for compensation, Seif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Muhamar Gaddafi , told the...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered all branches of the military to minimize their use of "stop loss" tactics to keep soldiers on active duty beyond their service contracts, notwithstanding a series of court rulings upholding...

The government of Norway has proposed new legislation that would allow embryonic stem cell research to potentially find cures for various diseases. Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Silvia Brustad said...

Bowers v. City of Philadelphia, US District Judge R. Barclay Surrick, US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, January 25, 2007 . Read the full...

Ali Hassan al-Majid , the cousin of Saddam Hussein also known to the Western media as "Chemical Ali," unapologetically admitted in court Sunday that he gave orders for the destruction of dozens Kurdish villages and...

An Italian draft law published Friday proposing prison sentences for race-based hate crimes but not making Holocaust denial an explicit crime in itself may complicate a German-initiated move to criminalize such Holocaust denial...

Civil rights groups have been pushing Democratic lawmakers to reconsider a bill banning racial profiling by any government entity since an airline's decision to remove a group of imams from a flight in November. Rep. John...