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A range of rights groups, military lawyers and legal scholars Friday ripped into the deal on military commissions legislation reached Thursday between top Senate Republicans and the White House. American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the "compromise" between senior Republican lawmakers and the White House on the terms of military commission legislation governing detainee interrogation and trial provides US interrogators with...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday urged global action to combat three challenges facing humanity - human rights and the rule of law, security, and development - as the UN General Assembly opened its 61st session...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur...

At a press conference in the Rose Garden Friday, President Bush urged members of Congress to approve his proposed legislation authorizing the use of military commissions for...

Ben Davis : "The President in his televised press conference today framed the discussion of the draft bill on Military Commissions in terms of whether Congress was going to permit "the Program" to go forward....

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that minimum due process guarantees under customary international law must not be denied when Congress attempts to articulate forms of procedure for new US military commissions...When considering...

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after 9/11 - five years that have witnessed Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Abu Ghraib and CIA "black sites" - there are hopeful signs that America is...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama has confirmed that the Rwandan Parliament would be presented a bill in December aimed at abolishing capital punishment in the African nation. The legislation, immensely unpopular with the...

Implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, August 31, 2006 . Read the full text...