US senators working towards a compromise on key sections of an immigration reform bill they hope to vote on by Memorial Day have tentatively agreed to toughen rules on the hiring of illegal immigrants by forcing...

US District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina has ruled that a lawsuit against US officials brought by four British citizens formerly held at Guantanamo who claim their religious freedoms were infringed during detention may go forward. Urbina found...

Committee Against Torture, presentation by the United States, May 5-8, 2006. Read the remarks by U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser John Bellinger at the May 5 meeting; the written presentation by the United States to the Committee (responses to...

The UN General Assembly Tuesday elected 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council . The successful candidates included Russia and China, which recently have come under US criticism [JURIST...

After Iranian lawmakers on Sunday sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Annan and other members of the UN Security Council failed...

A 13-member delegation of European Union officials arrived in Washington on Tuesday and began meeting with Bush administration officials, members of the US House and Senate and other officials in Washington as part of...

As debate continues in Kuwait over whether to amend the country's constitution to make changes to election law, Kuwaiti information minister Anas al-Rasheed has submitted his resignation as a...

Nepal's government on Tuesday annulled a media ordinance promulgated by King Gyanendra during his 15-month absolute rule to muzzle press that criticized his seizure of power in February 2005. The ordinance was criticized both in...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina began hearing its first genocide case Tuesday with the opening of the trial of 11 Bosnian Serbs charged for their role in...

Less than two months after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan that lost...