The Myanmar military government should investigate allegations that police opened fire on panicked prisoners during last month's devastating cyclone, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana said Friday. In a...
The US should not try children under the age of 18 in military tribunals, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a report released Friday as part of a periodic review...
A panel of three international judges in the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica sentenced an ethnic Albanian man Friday to 40 years in prison for a 2001 bus bombing that killed...
A federal grand jury has indicted two former executives of Silicon Valley technology firm Broadcom in connection with a scheme to backdate company stock options. According to the indictment unsealed in federal court Thursday, firm...
A UK High Court judge has ordered an expedited hearing on whether the UK government must turn over documents allegedly showing that the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay was tortured. US...
A spokesman for the Japanese cabinet said Friday that the government would officially recognize the Ainu - an ethnic minority mainly concentrated on Japan's Hokkaido island who traditionally lived by hunting, gathering and fishing - as an indigenous...
The Department of Homeland Security's internal investigations department has reopened an investigation into the extraordinary rendition of Canadian engineer Maher Arar , DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner told a congressional...
Japan's Ministry of Justice indicated Thursday that it would revise a law which denied Japanese citizenship to the illegitimate children of Japanese fathers and foreign mothers. The Supreme Court of Japan ruled Wednesday...
The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released two new reports Friday detailing increased populations in American jails and prisons . The reports show that the US prison population...
The US Department of Justice filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Honeywell International Inc. , alleging that the company knowingly sold more than 1,700 defective...