The Constitutional Court of Ukraine limited the president's power to appoint and dismiss members of local judiciaries on Wednesday. The ruling affirmed that of the country's High Justice Council . In Ukraine, local...

The US House of Representatives narrowly passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act Wednesday, approving heavy criminal penalties for oil companies and individuals who take "unfair advantage" or charge "unconscionably excessive" prices for fuel....

Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice upheld the rights of trade unions in two opinions Wednesday. In Laval v. Partneri (C-341/05) , Mengozzi advised the court to allow...

Milorad Ulemek, paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic , was convicted with 11 others on Wednesday for the assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic . The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Ulemek to...

Amnesty International Report 2007: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, March 23, 2007 [condemning the US and other Western democratic states for their attempts to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights in their efforts to...

Former US Department of Justice aide Monica Goodling testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the fired US Attorneys scandal , saying she did not play a key role in the...

The Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Mahmoud Baiai and Izabela Trzcinska, et al., England and Wales Court of Appeal, May 23, 2007 [affirming a lower court opinion that UK provisions requiring people born outside of the EU...

Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs vs. The Queen (on the application of Bancoult), England and Wales Court of Appeal, May 23, 2007 [ruling that a group of Indian Ocean islanders must be allowed to return to...

Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan condemned the United States and other "Western democratic states" Wednesday for what she characterized as attempts "to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights" in their efforts to fight terrorism. Khan's...

The Court of Appeals for England and Wales ruled Wednesday that provisions of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights , and upheld a 2005 lower court...