The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged Nigerian leaders from all sectors of society to make a concerted effort to stop the recent violence against civilians unleashed by the Islamic...
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in the UK said Thursday that there was not enough evidence to try British intelligence agents for alleged complicity in the torture of...
Chief Defense Counsel for Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals, Colonel J.P. Colwell on Sunday ordered attorneys under his command not to comply with rules requiring military officials to review all legal correspondence between...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (TRCT) has recommended that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra amend the law that punishes anyone who insults the royal family with up to 15 years in prison [Thai Penal Code...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals the court will determine whether Congress constitutionally abrogated states' Eleventh Amendment ...
A court in Senegal on Thursday rejected a Belgian court's request to extradite Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad, on accusations that he killed and tortured opponents during his regime. Habre served as...
The New Jersey Legislature passed an amendment to a bill on Monday that establishes a one-year ban on a natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking . Legislators re-introduced...
Prosecutors for the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) arrested the former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party (JI) on Wednesday, alleging crimes against humanity committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 [Bangladesh...
Twenty-six states submitted a brief to the US Supreme Court Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the expansion of Medicaid for the poor and disabled in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590;...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC that the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment bar wrongful termination...