Response of Microsoft Corporation to the Statement of Objections by the European Commission Dated 21 December 2005, February 15, 2006; released February 23, 2006 . Read the response and associated documents from Microsoft. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Draft resolution by the President of the UN General Assembly: Human Rights Council . Read the full text of the draft resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Lawyers defending former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein , on trial before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, have filed a formal motion seeking the disqualification of chief judge Rauf Abdel-Rahman . Abdel-Rahman began presiding over the trial last month after his predecessor resigned amid criticism that he had been too lenient during proceedings. Ramsey Clark, a [...]

Microsoft Thursday made a symbolic response to a new antitrust complaint filed with the European Commission by IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and six other companies by taking the unusual step of posting online its full 78-page defense against a Commission complaint that it had not complied with a 2004 EC antitrust ruling mandating the production [...]

UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson on Thursday unveiled a draft proposal for a new United Nations human rights body that would replace the highly criticized Commission on Human Rights . The blueprint describes a 47-member Human Rights Council whose membership would be open to all UN member states. States would be elected to the [...]

UK Human Rights: A Broken Promise, Amnesty International, February 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Human Rights Report 2005, UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, February 23, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A Human Rights Watch expert Thursday told members of a European Parliament committee formed to investigate allegations that the US has transferred prisoners through Europe on secret extraordinary rendition flights that the United States has gone to great lengths to cover up evidence of the flights and urged the EU lawmakers to encourage other witnesses [...]

HealthSouth on Thursday finalized a settlement agreement with plaintiffs in several federal securities class action suits for a total $445 million. HealthSouth itself will pay defrauded investors $215 million, and its insurance carriers will pay $230 million, pending final approval by the court. Additionally, the settlement agreement will remit to defrauded investors 25 percent of [...]

The International Labour Organization (ILO) , a UN agency, on Thursday officially adopted the long-debated Maritime Labour Convention , a bill of rights applicable to maritime workers that sets minimum standards for wages, work-to-rest ratios, and lays out comprehensive health and safety standards. The convention will become effective upon ratification by 30 of the 100 [...]