Myanmar signed on to a new Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) charter Monday, despite other ASEAN members' criticism of the country's human rights record and continued detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . The charter was designed to create stronger economic and security ties within the region, and Article 14 establishes a [...]
The head of the League of Arab States on Sunday presented a plan to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir recommending how he should react to an application for an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The effort to arrest the president is based on allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The [...]
The Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association has adopted two annual days of remembrance to highlight the plight of judges deposed following the declaration of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. The Bar Association will observe Independence of Judiciary Day every year on July 20, and Black Day on November 3 of every year. [...]
Cambodia has submitted a letter to the UN Security Council seeking to draw UN attention to its border dispute with Thailand. Disagreement between the two countries has arisen over the border area surrounding the Preah Vihear temple , which both countries claim lies within their borders. AP reports that Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said, [...]
The Human Rights Annual Report 2007 released Sunday by the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee recommended that the UK not rely on any assurances made by the US that it does not use torture. The report also calls on the UK to fully investigate US interrogation tactics to ensure that no torture techniques [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday upheld the acquittal of David Finnerty, a former specialist trader at Fleet Specialist Inc., a subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial Corp., who had been accused of making improper trades for his firm’s account on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) . The three-judge panel unanimously [...]
The Arab League issued a resolution on Saturday criticizing International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The 22-country group, which held an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the pending charges, rebuked the prosecutor for his “unbalanced [...]
The Malawi state security organization has put under surveillance the three-judge panel determining whether former President Bakili Muluzi is eligible to run for another term as president, according to a Friday report by the Nyasa Times. The report included a statement from an officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a branch of the Malawi [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made an unusual ruling on Friday, finding that the adverse credibility determination made by an Immigration Judge (IJ) in an asylum case was not based on substantial evidence. The petitioner, Etagegn Haile Tekle, appealed the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision which had affirmed the IJ's [...]
The European Commission (EC) announced Thursday that it has filed additional antitrust charges against microprocessor manufacturer Intel for anti-competitive actions it has allegedly taken against rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . In a Supplementary Statement of Objections (SSO), the EC said that Intel had provided "substantial" rebates to one computer retailer on the condition that [...]
