UN officials have released a revised version of plans to reform the 60-year old organization and its mandate, articulating for the first time a definition of terrorism ("the targeting and deliberate killing of civilians and noncombatants") to ground a...

The Iranian judiciary released a report Saturday detailing what it called widespread instances of human rights violations, from solitary confinement to physically coerced confessions. A law passed last year banning torture is frequently ignored, according...

California's Third District Court of Appeal ruled late Friday that Proposition 80 , a ballot initiative that would expand the power of the California Public Utilities Commission , violated the state constitution and struck it from...

A senior Royal Nepalese Army official said Saturday that six Nepalese soldiers who were part of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been convicted of sexual abuse. The United...

US Department of Defense lawyers have refused to comply with a federal judge's order to release pictures and videotapes documenting the abuse of Abu Ghraib prisoners, alleging release "could result in harm to individuals." Judge...

US Senator John Kerry (D-MA) called on the White House Friday to release the complete file of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts during the time he served in two Republican administrations. Democrats are seeking the...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has violated the 1974 Privacy Act by collecting personal information on nearly 250,000 people without their knowledge, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday. Congressional...

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the Scope and Impact of Operation Murambatsvina, UN Special Envoy on Human Settlements Issues in Zimbabwe, July 22, 2005 [report condemning "Operation Restore Order," an initiative implemented by the government of...

US v. Kaczynski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, July 21, 2005 [ruling ordering the US government to sell the writings and other materials seized from the home of "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski in 1996 and use the...

Leading Friday's states brief, Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal has ruled that unused butterfly ballots from the 2000 presidential election can be destroyed as they are not public records. Chief Judge Charles J. Kahn, Jr. wrote...