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US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday that the US will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to establish a tribunal under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to try suspects...

The two Cuban soldiers who last week killed an army officer while attempting to hijack a plane to flee the island were encouraged to do so by last month's US release of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles...

The government of Ecuador has set up a truth commission to investigate rights abuses committed in the country beginning in the early 1980s, a period that includes the 1984-88 presidency of right wing politician...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon Thursday signed a decree decriminalizing libel and defamation, offenses previously punishable by prison sentences. Henceforward they will be punishable by fine and subject to civil suits. The move has already garnered the approval...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that amidst the political furor over the role of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the firings of US Attorneys we should also remember his involvement in...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon proposed changes to the country's constitution Friday in an effort to reform its criminal justice system . Earlier this month, Amnesty International accused Mexico ...

The Cambodian government uses systematic human rights and civil liberty violations to maintain its hold on power, according to a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai and obtained by AFP. The report listed illegal land...

UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour marked International Women's Day Thursday with a stark message on violence against women , urging an end to impunity for what was paradoxically the "most common but least...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, imprisoned in Siberia for tax fraud after a controversial trial and now facing new money laundering charges, says that if the rule...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to reject a proposed amnesty resolution that would grant pardons for crimes committed during the 25 years of war in Afghanistan , according to spokesman Karim Rahimi...