The UN's top humanitarian expert told the UN Security Council Wednesday that immediate action must to be taken to prevent civilian deaths in ongoing armed conflicts in several countries. Jan Egeland , UN Under-Secretary-General...
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UN official urges Security Council to protect civilians better in armed conflict
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Hamdan military commissions ruling [US SC]
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Rights coalition asks African Union to compel trial of former Chad president
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Arizona insanity defense ruling [US SC]
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Serbia high court finds Milosevic ordered political killings
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Yahoo! ‘click fraud’ settlement wins preliminary approval from federal judge
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Low-income group challenges Medicaid citizenship documentation legislation
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court rules Guantanamo military commissions illegal
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Supreme Court upholds Arizona law on insanity defense
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Kazakhstan parliament makes second bid to pass restrictive media legislation
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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Petitioner Salim Ahmed Hamdan,...
The Campaign Against Impunity , a group of 300 African and international civil society bodies, has urged the African Union Assembly to call on Senegal to try former Chad President Hissene Habre [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news...
Clark v. Arizona, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion per Justice Souter,...
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ordered the 2000 killing of communist-era Serbian President Ivan Stambolic , his former mentor, to consolidate his hold on power in the former Yugoslavia, Serbia's Supreme Court said in a...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Yahoo! Inc. overcharged for pay-per-click advertising. As part of the agreement, approved Wednesday by US District Judge Christina...
A group of nine low-income citizens filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Wednesday seeking to enjoin legislation requiring proof of citizenship for Medicaid beneficiaries from taking...
Wire services are reporting that the US Supreme Court has ruled that military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are illegal under military law and the Geneva Conventions , holding in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Arizona's law governing insanity defenses in criminal cases, ruling in Clark v. Arizona that the state's approach does not violate constitutional...
Kazakhstan's parliament has approved legislation that would subject the news media to more state control. It will not take effect unless signed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev , who vetoed a similar law...
