The White House announced Friday that it will bring in former Texas Supreme Court justices to highlight the qualifications of Texas native and US Supreme Court associate justice nominee Harriet Miers ....

Iraqis prepared to go the polls Saturday to cast ballots in a critical referendum on a draft constitution the terms of which were only finalized earlier this week at the end...

Protection Gap: Strenghthening Canada's Compliance With Its International Human Rights Obligations, Amnesty International Canada's Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, October 14, 2005 [finding that Canada must make "significant improvements" in its efforts to meet international human rights...

A lawyer for detainees at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay currently on hunger strike argued Friday before US District Judge Gladys Kessler that prisoner attorneys needed more frequent access to...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Friday that it would not reconsider its decision to end a two-year ban on Canadian cattle imports. Earlier this year a group of...

The chief counsel for Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has said that the US Attorney for the District of Columbia is now investigating conservative radio commentator Armstrong Williams . Williams was hired by the...

US ambassador to the UN John Bolton predicted on Friday that current efforts to dramatically expand the number of seats on the UN Security Council will fail. The 15-member council currently has five permanent members...

Revisions to the "final" (Sept. 18) version of the Iraqi draft constitution, as agreed by Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni negotiators on October 11, 2005. Articles translated by the Associated Press:NEW: Article 1:The Republic of Iraq is a single, independent federal...

Palestinian Chief Justice Zuhair al-Sourani resigned Thursday in protest of legislation that gives government ministers the power to appoint judges. In a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas , al-Sourani wrote that he could not continue in his post...

Canada must make "significant improvements" in its efforts to meet international human rights obligations, according to a new Amnesty International Canada report critical of the Canadian government for reserving the right to deport people to countries where they...