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Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur to the United Nations Secretary-General Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1564 of 18 September 2004, January 25, 2005. Excerpt from the executive summary:Based on a thorough analysis of the information gathered...

In Thursday's international brief, senior African Union officials are reporting that the Sudanese government bombed a Darfur village Wednesday, with NGO workers present for the first time to actually witness the explosions. The announcement came...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, Jan. 27.Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich will deliver a state of the state address today at 12 PM ET.At the EU today, Commissioner for...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of...

In Thursday's international brief, Savo Todovic, former deputy commander of the Serb-run Foca concentration camp , was officially charged at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Wednesday....

A South Korean appeals court Wednesday acquitted the operators of a Korean-language website that allows users to freely swap song files. Yang Jung-hwan and his brother, Il-hwan, created Soribada South Korea's most popular music-swapping site,...

British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith provided new details in a speech Tuesday on the creation of a proposed UK crime-fighting agency similar to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The new institution, to be called the...

Survivors and families of victims of last week's tsunami disaster in South Asia are falling prey to thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers. Sri Lanka's Women and Media Collective said Monday that they "have received reports of incidents of rape,...

JURIST Contibuting Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the Bush administration's appointment of minority candidates to high-profile positions has made them the complicit and even enthisiastic instruments of political and legal policies as harmful as...

Ellen Podgor, Georgia State University College of Law:"This Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case that is important to white collar crime law, as the case will determine whether the crime of conspiracy to commit money...