A Russian bill designed to increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a governmental commission has draw sharp criticism from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as troubling...

French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has stated that contrary to press reports, French airports were 'apparently not' used by CIA 'ghost flights' allegedly moving US detainees around the world where they might have been...

French judges ruled Wednesday against the deportation of a 21-year old Mauritanian man accused of participating in the suburban riots that broke out across France last month. The regional court in Pontoise , a town...

On Terrorists and Torturers, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, December 7, 2005 [statement issued on the occasion of Human Rights Day declaring that the absolute ban on torture, a cornerstone of the international human rights law, is...

Fraternal Order of Police, North Dakota State Lodge et al. v. Wayne Stenehjem, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of North Dakota, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, December 7, 2005 [ruling that...

A memo obtained Wednesday shows that the top US general in Iraq, Gen. George Casey , was aware of reports of abuse of detainees by Iraqi security forces in June. The memo, dated June 22, indicated that Casey...

Supporters of a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts delivered 170,000 signatures to the secretary of state Wednesday, moving them one step closer to putting the initiative on the ballot in 2008. The drive,...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Wednesday said that the US-led war on terror has threatened the world ban on torture and weakened the US' international standing on human rights. Arbour said that "unassailable"...

Lockhart v. US, Supreme Court of the United States, December 7, 2005 . Read...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked that a jury verdict finding it negligent in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center be set aside. According to a...