The UK House of Lords Wednesday passed a bill to ratify the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , rejecting an amendment pushed by...
The Norwegian parliament approved a law Tuesday allowing same-sex marriage in the country. The new law replaces 1993 legislation that granted same-sex couples the right to enter into civil partnerships. The bill was proposed...
Physicians For Human Rights Wednesday released a report saying that abuse and torture claims made by former detainees held by the US in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq are...
A panel of judges in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday reversed the conviction of former White House official David Safavian because of previous judicial error and the use...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday denounced a recent Burundi Constitutional Court decision to dismiss 22 former members of the ruling party from the National Assembly, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the...
US immigration prosecutions continued to increase in March 2008, jumping nearly 50 percent from the previous month and nearly 75 percent from the previous year, according to a report released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...
A military judge Tuesday dropped charges against a US Marine charged in connection with the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha . Battalion commander Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani had...
Bolivian officials Monday rejected a Peruvian proposal to expand intellectual property protections, arguing that the amendment would be illegal and would harm the Bolivian economy. Peru is anxious to strengthen its intellectual property laws...
Detained members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) , a rebel group from Sudan's Darfur region , will be charged with terrorism and tried this week, Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel Basset Sabdarat told AP Monday....
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Tuesday signed into law constitutional reforms which provide for public and oral trials, guarantee the presumption of innocence, and guarantee suspects representation by qualified public defenders....