Letter dated 7 August from the UN Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, August 7, 2006 . Excerpt:The attack on...

Police in Argentina have arrested three former officials suspected of human rights violations during the country's "Dirty War" , the former military junta's campaign against its domestic opponents - at least 13,000 of whom "disappeared"...

Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday called for the resignation of Ishmael Wadi, Director of Public Prosecutions, who in July dropped corruption charges against former President Bakili Muluzi on the eve of...

Dutch prosecutors have charged a Rwandan immigrant arrested in Amsterdam with committing war crimes and torture in Rwanda, officials said Thursday. Specifically, prosecutors alleged that "Joseph M." ordered the killing of several Tutsis that were dragged out of an...

The Swiss Justice Ministry has decided to grant US investigators access to information about bank accounts of terrorism suspects, a justice ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia...

The human rights situation continues to deteriorate in some parts of Darfur despite the Darfur Peace Agreement signed in May by the Sudanese government and the main rebel group in the region,...

The Australian House of Representatives approved the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill by a margin of 78-62 Thursday, a bill that will require asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be processed in...

Efraim Zuroff, a director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , urged Serbia on Wednesday to request the extradition of Ivo Rojnica and Milivoj Asner , two Croatian-born men accused of committing atrocities against Jews, Serbs...

An attorney for former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has indicated that he intends to ask a federal court to vacate Lay's criminal convictions and dismiss the indictment in the case. Lawyer Samuel Buffone...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday introduced plans to give small public US companies and some foreign companies additional time to comply with restrictive internal control requirements relating to financial...