Taylor held $5B in US banks during presidency: SCSL chief prosecutor
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor controlled about five billion dollars held at two US banks during his presidency, Special Court for Sierra Leone head prosecutor Stephen Rapp told the BBC Friday....
A US military judge Wednesday rejected arguments that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for his trial lacks...
ICC unseals arrest warrant for Congo militia leader suspected of enlisting child soldiers
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday made public an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda, who is accused of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The arrest warrant...
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday unveiled new proposed regulations to implement the federal No Child Left Behind Act . At a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, Spelling said :Today, more...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Kennedy v. Louisiana , 07-343, where the Supreme Court considered whether the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual...
Women face legalized discrimination in nearly every country in the world despite pledges by 185 members to eliminate laws favoring men by 2005, according to a UN-commissioned report released Sunday. Prepared by University of London School of...
Argentina ex-army officer, adoptive parents convicted of 'Dirty War' kidnapping
A former Argentinean army officer and two adoptive parents were convicted Friday of kidnapping and falsifying the identity of Maria Eugenia Sampallo Barragan, a woman who was kidnapped during the 1976-1983 "Dirty War" [Global Security backgrounder; JURIST...
Khadr defense urges federal appeals court to reverse juvenile 'enemy combatant' ruling
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr have asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to reverse a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) determination that their client is an "enemy...
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday condemning the military government of Myanmar for ongoing systematic violations of human rights and people's fundamental freedoms. The European Union expressed...
A former army general and warlord in the Democratic Republic of Congo denied allegations of war crimes in an interview published Wednesday in Dutch newspaper Trouw . Laurent Nkunda , the Tutsi...
