EU justice, immigration ministers balk at UN call to take more refugees
A UN appeal to European Union countries to draft a joint resettlement policy that would allow for acceptance of more refugees was met with reluctance Saturday by European justice and immigration ministers gathered in Brussels. UN High Commissioner for...
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission , a watchdog group supported by the UN and set up pursuant to the 2001 Bonn Agreement , called on the international community and the US-backed Afghan government [official website> Saturday...
Luxembourg Justice Minister Luc Frieden , speaking Friday at a meeting of EU justice ministers, has called for the European Union to institute a ban on the use of Nazi symbols as part of a larger effort to...
International brief ~ Sudan bombs Darfur in violation of cease-fire
In Thursday's international brief, senior African Union officials are reporting that the Sudanese government bombed a Darfur village Wednesday, with NGO workers present for the first time to actually witness the explosions. The announcement came...
British Foreign Minister Jack Straw Wednesday unveiled the question voters will be asked in an upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution : Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a Constitution for the European Union?"...
EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told the European Parliament Tuesday that despite overtures from newly sworn-in Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the European Union would not be granting an association accord to the...
Sixth Circuit overturns Scottish man's death penalty conviction
Citing "constitutional errors", the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday overturned the controversial conviction and death sentence of British national Kenny Richey of Edinburgh. Richey will be released from death row in 90...
Jerzy Urban, editor-in-chief of the Polish weekly newspaper Nie , was convicted by a court in Warsaw Tuesday for criticizing Pope John Paul II . Jerzy was found guilty of insulting a head of state,...
The European Union announced Friday its unanimous approval of a measure to end penalty sanctions imposed on $4 billion worth of US exports. The European Council recommended the sanctions end on February 1 and approved a program...
International brief ~ Yushchenko inauguration expected late this week
In Wednesday's international legal news, Viktor Yushchenko , the pro-western reformer who led a popular charge to see the original November Ukranian presidential election results reversed on grounds of fraud, will most likely...
