The United States submitted a draft resolution to the UN Commission on Human Rights Tuesday criticizing the human rights record of Cuba . The US annually submits a similar resolution as part of its efforts to...
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The State Council of China released a 41-page report Wednesday claiming significant progress in the promotion and protection of human rights. The document reported over 1,500 investigations and prosecutions of government officials alleged to have violated human...
AP is reporting that the European Parliament has approved the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union in 2007. 8:32 AM ET - The European Parliament voted 497-93, with 71 abstentions, in favor of Romania's...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he would not seek to amend the Russian constitution so that he could run for a third consecutive term. Russia's constitution does not allow the...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, April 13.The US Senate convenes at 9:30 AM ET today, when it will consider H.R. 1268 , the Iraq/Afghanistan Supplemental...
United States v. Barot, et al., Southern District of New York, April 12, 2005 . Read the full text of the indictment here. Reported in...
Following up on a story reported on JURIST's Paper Chase earlier today, Canadian parliamentarians late Tuesday afternoon turned back an opposition amendment to government-proposed same-sex marriage legislation that would have limited marriage to union between a man and a...
The top religious official in Saudi Arabia has banned the practice of allowing parents to force women to marry. Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik said in a statement that coercion to marry was "un-Islamic," and that fathers who...
The nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN is expected to be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as early as Thursday, despite intense criticism by a former State Department official...
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has announced that the state will join nine others in suing the Environmental Protection Agency over a recently announced rule to reduce mercury emissions. The lawsuit, led by New...
