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Eva Herzer : "The United Nations Charter, Covenants and Declarations set forth the internationally agreed upon standards of human ethics and decency necessary to protect the integrity and dignity of individuals...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned a film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders that criticizes the Koran, calling it "offensively anti-Islamic." In a statement , Ban said:I condemn, in the...

The adoption of a media charter by the council of Arab information ministers is an attempt to take away what limited broadcast freedom private TV viewers enjoy, according to a statement text by the Committee to Protect...

Iranian police arrested twenty people near the Iraqi border on suspicion of participating in an international spy ring, according to state news agency IRNA Monday. The arrests come several months after the Iranian government first...

Growing criticism of the circumstances behind the Guantanamo detention of German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz has focused on German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier following German media reports over the weekend. Kurnaz, arrested by...

UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas on Thursday warned that Britain is becoming a "surveillance society" , where the daily lives of citizens are increasingly monitored and privacy is being gradually - if often imperceptibly - eroded....

JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Baynes of the St. John's University School of Law says that to remedy racially-stereotyped reporting of events such as the 2005 Katrina disaster, the Federal Communications Commission should implement policies to increase the number of minorities...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the International Commission of Jurists and former Chief Justice of South Africa, says that although the threat of terrorism is real, five years after the September 11 attacks on the United...

Abigail Salisbury : "I went to spend my summer working in Prishtina, the capital city of Kosovo, because I thought that there I would gain some valuable experience which would be relevant to...

Bolivian President Evo Morales may be forced to compromise with a special assembly that will rewrite the country's constitution after Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) apparently failed to...