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The UN General Assembly's Third Committee on Thursday voted 99-52 to place a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty . Thirty-three countries abstained from the vote. Opponents of the resolution ,...

Nations that support the use of the death penalty Wednesday criticized a UN draft resolution to impose a world-wide moratorium on the capital punishment. The UN Human Rights Committee is scheduled...

JURIST Guest Columnist Shubhankar Dam of the Singapore Management University School of Law says that in pressing Pakistan's Supreme Court in the direction of greater activism, Pakistan's lawyers embraced a problematic strategy that unintentionally helped to provoke General Pervez Musharraf's...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS) violated a confessed al-Qaeda operative's civil rights, according to the Security Intelligence Review Committee in an oversight report to the Canadian parliament Wednesday. Canadian citizen Mohammed Mansour Jabarah...

The Chinese Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Kunming, Yunnan sentenced the former deputy director of the province's transportation department to life in prison Wednesday for accepting more than $5.3 million in bribes in exchange for his influence in securing...

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reached an agreement in principle Monday to establish a human rights body as part of the proposed ASEAN Charter, according to an announcement by Singapore Foreign Minister George...

Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:One year ago today, July 11, 2006, a day Indians call 7/11 (or 11/7), seven coordinated blasts within fifteen minutes tore through rail cars on Mumbai's suburban railway killing 187 people. Nineteen suspects...

Andrew Wood, Pitt Law '08, files from Manila:The Philippines is a fascinating place to spend the summer. The country is confronted with a constant and complex problem of migration, an issue that the government is struggling to solve. Well-educated Filipinos...

The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the...

A study released Friday by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) has found a "substantial growth in the scale, scope and sophistication" of Internet censorship worldwide. The study, focusing on state-mandated censorship, found evidence of content...