Russia Friday assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (COE) , the assembly responsible for maintaining human rights and democracy in Europe. Russian Minister...
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Lawyers representing Hurricane Katrina evacuees filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court on Friday, seeking an injunction against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) preventing the agency from ending housing benefits after the twelve-month...
The UN Committee against Torture report released Friday on US compliance with the Convention Against Torture urged the US to do more to protect domestic prisoners and suspects from violence and threats of violence,...
US District Court Judge Robin Cauthron Friday struck down a two year-old amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that prevented Oklahoma from recognizing adoptions by gay parents that were finalized in other US or foreign jurisdictions....
Leaders of right-wing anti-government paramilitaries in Colombia said Friday that Thursday's decision by the country's Constitutional Court throwing out a part of last years controversial Justice and Peace Law giving lesser punishments to paramilitary leaders...
The White House Friday responded to a report by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay detention facility by reinterating President...
Police in Zimbabwe arrested opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and 70 supporters on Friday for allegedly campaigning for a Saturday byelection in violation of Zimbabwes Public Order and Security Act , which makes it illegal...
Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: United States of America, UN Committee Against Torture, May 18, 2006 [saying that to comply with the terms of the Convention Against Torture the US should shut down its prison for terror...
The French National Assembly has postponed until at least October debate on a controversial bill sponsored by the opposition Socialist Party that would make it a crime...
Somali MPs on Friday asked Prime Minister Ali Gedi to expel several warlords from the Somali cabinet after 150 people were killed in Mogadishu last week during fighting between Islamic factions and the warlord militias. The MPs...
