New Zealand's Human Rights Commission announced Monday that the Human Rights Review Tribunal has found the nation's accident compensation system to be inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a measure to establish an anti-corruption council to be headed by Kremlin chief of staff Sergei Naryshkin , Medvedev announced at a Monday press conference . Medvedev said that...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in Demjanjuk v. Mukasey , ending the appeals process of a deportation order for accused former Nazi concentration camp guard and Ohio resident John...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally received cash from US businessman Morris Talansky while serving as a minister of industry, trade and labor, a state prosecutor said Monday in a hearing at the Supreme...

The Iranian government is engaged in systematic human rights abuses, an Iranian human rights group said in an annual report released Sunday. The Defenders of Human Rights Centre, a group founded and headed by 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua told AFP Sunday that he would resign if the Supreme Court of Nigeria invalidated his victory in the disputed 2007 presidential election . In March, Nigerian opposition leader and presidential...

Israel's Chief Rabbinate , the body that authorizes and conducts marriages in the country, should allow marriages between people of different religious faiths, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann said Sunday. The Chief Rabbinate currently...

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the...

Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion ....

United States v. Ressam, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....