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Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday that the United Nations does not have the authority to compel Serbia on the status of Kosovo, and that the two parties need to reach a negotiated agreement on the...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Thursday that Iran may stop allowing UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of its nuclear facilities and pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday denied a request by Argentina that Uruguay be barred from continuing construction of two paper mills along the river that separates the two nations ....

China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that while it's too early to abandon the troubled European constitution, significant strategic and political adjustments are required before...

Japan circulated a new UN Security Council draft resolution on Friday, tougher than a previous draft resolution circulated earlier this week , that would direct states to take whatever steps necessary to prevent North Korea...

North Korea on Thursday claimed it has a "legal right" to build and test missiles in an effort to strengthen self-defense, in a statement from the foreign ministry which also confirmed that the country test-launched seven...

Ben Davis : "As the debate intensifies in an election year in Congress over what to do after the Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case last week, I would ask two things: in drafting...

Eleven African jurists were sworn-in Monday as the first members of Africa's first continent-wide human rights court, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) , sponsored by the African Union . The swearing-in took...

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the US Supreme Court's...