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Despite the Australian government's recently-announced changes to the system , Amnesty International said Thursday in a new report that Australia's asylum policy is still "tragically flawed" . AI says the controversial...

Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere has announced that Kenya would actively be seeking to obtain one of the two permanent regional seats for Africa under the current proposed reform...

Thirteen refugees being held in immigration detention centers in Australia inflicted wounds upon themselves Saturday, protesting recent reforms in Australia's immigration policies that stop short of freeing all "unauthorised arrivals" currently imprisoned in refugee camps. The Australian...

The Real ID Act passed the US Senate 100-0 late Tuesday as a rider on an $82B emergency supplemental appropriations bill funding military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The controversial act...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, April 8.The US House opens its session at 10 AM ET today. Watch a live webcast. The US Senate ...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, March 3.The US Senate will convene at 9:30 AM ET today, and it will consider S.J.Res. 4 , expressing disapproval...

Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School:"I approach the issue of immigration reform (theoretical reform - neither Becker nor I are considering the political obstacles to radical changes in immigration law) somewhat differently. I begin by asking: why restrict immigration...

Little more than two weeks after telling the Washington Post that he would not press the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, President Bush has publicly reversed course in tonight's State of the Union Address:Because...

US House Committee on the Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, Jr. introduced legislation Wednesday that contains provisions restricting terrorist travel that were dropped from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 , which...

President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 into law Friday, implementing a series of intelligence reforms recommended by the 9/11 Commission and authorizing the broadest re-working of the US intelligence structure since President...