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The UN Human Rights Council held its inaugural session Monday, convening for its first session as the replacement body for the beleaguered Human Rights Commission . The Human...

Progress in eliminating human trafficking which victimizes some 800,000 worldwide is slow, and countries such as Belize, Burma, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe have failed to effectively combat it, the US Department...

Ali Khan : "By substituting the language of respectful negotiation for that of threats, the Bush administration is on the right track in dealing with Iran over nuclear power issues. The policy reverses the neo-conservative fantasies...

A study by the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , headed by former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix , has called for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons...

Iran has delivered a "bill of indictment" against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, which will submit it to Iraq's High Criminal Court, according to a joint statement issued Saturday by the governments of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that critical decisions about going to war should be constrained by national and international process that obliges empowering authorities to ask serious questions and requires leaders to...

The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs is reportedly preparing a document that recommends a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly inciting genocide with anti-Israel remarks . A group of Israeli...

Government officials in Iran are working on a draft bill , that would encourage a return to traditional Islamic religious dress in the workplace and in public. According to the Islamic Republic News...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned in a speech delivered in Japan Thursday that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty faces a twin crisis of "confidence and complicity":The Treaty embodies a contract between the nuclear weapon States and the rest...

The United States on Thursday introduced a new draft nuclear weapons treaty at a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT) , tabled ...