The US Senate Judiciary Committee will likely call Focus on the Family founder James Dobson , to testify at confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , Committee chairman Arlen Specter said...

Waddah al-Sheikh, who served as a senior officer in the investigations and evidence unit at Hakmiya, Iraq's main intelligence agency under the rule of Saddam Hussein, became the first witness to testify in Hussein's trial [JURIST news...

Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of the Afghanistan magazine Haqooq-i-Zan (translated as Women's Rights), was sentenced Sunday to two years in jail after being convicted of blasphemy for his publication of anti-Islamic articles. On Saturday, Kabul's Primary Court convicted Mohaqiq...

The number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons in 2004 was up by four percent compared with the year before, with women making up seven percent of all inmates, according to a report issued Sunday...

The United Nations has repeated its statements that abuses by coalition forces in Afghanistan are "totally unacceptable" and an "affront to the work of the international community in Afghanistan" after Australian TV broadcast video last week showing US soldiers...

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday that US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , a longtime friend and legal counsel to President Bush, lacks the requisite votes to be approved by the Senate. Schumer's comments...

Brazil, the country with the world's highest death rate from firearms , Sunday firmly rejected a ban on gun and ammunition sales in its first national referendum. Initial pre-referendum surveys had indicated a favorable view of the ban,...

The New York Times reported Sunday that federal prosecutors reviewing the involvement of CIA officials in the deaths of at least four prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan have decided not to bring criminal charges...

Officials and community advocates in New Orleans have proposed using the Roman law concept of usufruct to allow authorities to gain temporary control of privately owned homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina . Coming into Louisiana state...

Partial results of the referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq press briefing, October 22, 2005. Read the full text of the transcript via MNF-Iraq. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....