The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Friday called for Saudi Arabia to abolish laws that give men complete guardianship over women. Under current Saudi law, women have few or no...
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Suspended South Africa police commissioner and former INTERPOL president Jackie Selebi was provisionally charged Friday in a South African regional court with three counts of corruption and one count of defeating the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Friday that it will not reconsider its July 2007 decision that federal appeals courts reviewing the "enemy combatant" ...
The Constitutional Court of Romania Thursday ruled that parts of the law creating the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) are unconstitutional. Head of the Supreme...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Turkey violated the human rights of two men when police subjected them to inhuman and degrading treatment and then failed to properly investigate their allegations of abuse....
Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan Friday called for the resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after being freed from house arrest late Thursday. Ahsan was detained in a security sweep ...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court's dismissal of a lawsuit against a Massachusetts town that allows its public school system to teach children about...
The UK military is investigating allegations surrounding the 2004 deaths of 22 Iraqi detainees who may have been in UK custody and the alleged torture of nine other detainees, officials said Thursday after a court-imposed gag order on the...
Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black lost his bid Thursday to remain free on bail pending the appeal of his July conviction on mail fraud and obstruction of justice charges....
Hundreds of judges and lawyers in El Salvador marched to the Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday to protest challenges that the Attorney General has made to the rulings of four judges. Last week,...
