Thai interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud Thursday promised to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Speaking to Muslim leaders in the southern Pattani province,...
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The United States is violating its universal human rights obligations by its failure to protect millions of illegal immigrant workers from exploitation and discrimination in the workplace, according to a petition filed with the Inter-American...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has refused to rule on whether the European Constitution conforms with the German Constitution until a final decision on its ratification has been made. The German parliament ratified the...
Lawyers representing detainees held in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare a portion of the...
US Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez retired from the military Wednesday saying he was "forced" to leave because of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal which occurred during his tenure as the commander...
Lozano v. City of Hazelton, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, October 31, 2006 . Read the full text of...
Petition Under Section 115, US Clean Air Act, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, November 1, 2006 [petitioning the US Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of thirteen Canadian cities to mandate the reduction of air pollution from 150 coal-fired power plants in...
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for its alleged harassment of five US citizens of Mexican descent during...
In the first US case of its kind, a Georgia state court Wednesday found Ethiopian immigrant Khalid Adem guilty of sexually mutilating his then-two-year-old daughter and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Adem was...
The Sierra Legal Defence Fund petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday on behalf of thirteen Canadian cities - including Toronto, Windsor and Halifax - to mandate the reduction of air pollution from 150 coal-fired...
