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The UN General Assembly's Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs approved draft resolutions Wednesday denouncing both Belarus and Myanmar (formerly Burma) for human rights violations. The Belarus resolution, introduced by...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has opened a full criminal investigation into former Republican congressman Mark Foley in connection with his sexually explicit computer messages to young male pages disclosed earlier...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to investigate allegations that government forces and the rebel group Karuna has been using children in its fights against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

UK Home Secretary John Reid has advocated a range of criminal sentencing reforms for UK courts in a consultation paper released Thursday that accords judges greater discretion to increase sentences for dangerous criminals and advises...

A US judge hearing a motion to move Malcolm Watson's parole sentence from Canada to New York has denied that the sex offender had been "exiled" or "banished" to Canada. Watson was convicted by a New York court [JURIST...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) held a hearing Thursday to determine whether there was enough evidence to proceed to trial in the case against a Congolese militia leader. Thomas Lubanga [Trial Watch backgrounder;...

Arizona voters Tuesday overwhelmingly passed four measures directed against illegal immigration, approving each one by about a three-to-one margin across the state. If not overruled by the courts, Proposition 100 will deny bail for illegal immigrants under...

Medicaid assistance will be available to infants under the age of one year born in the US to illegal immigrants only if they have citizenship documentation, according to Bush administration officials quoted in the...

A Chinese intermediate appellate court has overturned and remanded back to the trial court the case of Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who was sentenced in August to four years...

US officials plan to request that convicted sex offender Malcolm Watson serve his three-year probation in New York instead of Canada. According to Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark , the request is motivated by complaints from...