Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday bowed to pressure from back-benchers and agreed to several amendments to proposed anti-terror legislation that will soften several of its provisions. After a day of...

Prosecutor v. Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu et al., International Criminal Tribunal for ths Former Yugoslavia, November 30, 2005 [convicting Haradin Bala of torture, cruel treatment and murder at a prison camp in Kosovo run by the Kosovo Liberation...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday delayed a US attempt to bring Myanmar before the council over what the US described as a deteriorating political and human rights situation. US Ambassador John Bolton ...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said that the country's constitution should be amended to allow the country to increase its military for national security purposes. Koizumi said that the country could not defend itself without...

Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture, University of Melbourne, November 29, 2005 [accusing the current Australian Liberal party government of pursuing laws - including...

The Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey on Wednesday overturned the life sentence of Metin Kaplan , an Islamist cleric convicted on charges of plotting to fly an aircraft into the mausoleum of Turkey’s...

US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq [JURIST news...

Former Hollinger International Inc. executives Jack Boultbee and Peter Atkinson failed to appear on Wednesday at the federal court in Chicago to be arraigned on fraud charges. Both Boultbee, who is charged with eight counts of fraud,...

US District Judge Inge P. Johnson of the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday dismissed fraud charges against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO, Richard Scrushy because the charges were not specific. Johnson will allow...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has promised to continue a state challenge to funding under the federal No Child Left Behind Act despite the dismissal of separate...