Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the country's parliament Friday that his government will draft a new constitution that would more effectively protect individual rights in accordance with international standards. Erdogan was laying out his program...

A new one-page US military report obtained by the Associated Press shows that despite a decline in the number of prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , "mass disturbances" by inmates have risen...

A convention convened by the government of Myanmar to establish guidelines for the eventual drafting of a new national constitution completed work at its final session Friday as international pressure increased...

The New York-based Sikh Coalition Saturday expressed concern at a new US Transportation and Security Administration policy that subjects Sikhs to heightened screening procedures at US airports, including mandatory turban pat downs. On...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has dismissed Law and Justice Minister Wasi Zafar and moved him to another cabinet portfolio in the wake of the reinstatement of suspended Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry [official website;...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said in a radio address Saturday that he expected lawmakers in the country's congress to reject a request from Ecuador's Supreme Court to lift his immunity so that...

A Chinese draft law on criminal suspects' rights to meet with defense lawyers after questioning has been broadened to include cases involving state secrets, according to Chinese state media. A set of reforms to China's Law on Lawyers [text,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday urged the interim government of Bangladesh to respect international human rights standards as it enforces a curfew and seeks to police demonstrations. The government imposed the curfew...

China's cabinet, the State Council , is considering a regulation to ban non-medical sex-selective abortions in the country, according to a senior official quoted by state media sources Saturday. Wang Yongqing, deputy head of the Office of Legislative...

US Judge Advocates General told a group of Republican senators last month that CIA prisoner interrogation methods authorized under a July executive order issued by President Bush could contravene the Geneva Conventions, according to the Boston...