US District Judge Henry Kennedy on Thursday ordered the US Department of Justice to respond to a FOIA request filed by the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) and produce documents related...

British legal experts and politicians are bracing for a major confrontation between the upper and lower houses of Parliament when the Terrorism Bill comes before the House of Lords again on February 28 after Wednesday's...

The United States has dismissed as a "discredit to the UN" a report released Thursday by UN special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Commission on Human Rights [official...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales repeatedly stressed his personal and institutional commitment to the protection of civil rights in a speech to Justice Department staff Wednesday setting out the Department's priorities for the coming year. First...

Newmont Mining Corporation agreed on Thursday to settle a civil suit brought by Indonesia for $30 million, ending one of two significant legal battles between the two parties. The settlement comes after Indonesia decided...

The Australian Parliament ended a de facto ban on the so-called "abortion drug" RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone) on Thursday by removing the need for approval by the Health Minister to use the drug. Tony Abbott [official...

The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Maoist rebels are violating international human rights laws , according to a new report released by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...

Iraq's Interior Ministry Thursday announced an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, either working for, or claiming to work for the ministry itself. The US military says it recently detained 22 men...

Rene Preval became the president-elect of Haiti Thursday after the interim government and the Provisional Election Council (CEP) reached an agreement allowing him to exceed the necessary 50.1 percent of the majority...

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee, has complained of bias in a recent report of the Congressional Research Service on the NSA domestic spying program . In a...