Report to the Government of the United Kingdom by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), Council of Europe, June 9, 2005 [criticizing the UK's treatment of terrorist suspects in custody...

Chaoulli, et al. v. Attorney General of Quebec, et al., Supreme Court of Canada, June 9, 2005 . Excerpt:The relief...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda put former Rwanda education minister Andre Rwamakuba on trial Thursday despite his refusal to attend the proceedings . Rwamakuba is accused of making lists...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that thousands of prisoners are being held in Iraq without due process, constituting "one of the major human rights challenges" faced by the country. In a report to the UN Security Council...

A French pensions court Thursday awarded disability benefits for a non-cancer illness contracted by soldier who participated in French nuclear testing over 40 years ago in the Sahara desert. The ruling marked the first example in Feench...

The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday overturned a section of a Quebec law that prevented people from buying private insurance for procedures covered by public health care. The Quebec Hospital Insurance Act was challenged [Canadian Press...

A Kenyan judge Thursday acquitted four men charged in the 2002 bombing of a hotel near Mombasa , ruling that prosecutors had failed to show a link between the men and the bombers or al Qaida,...

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic denied at his trial on Wednesday that he was in charge of the unit shown killing six Bosnian Muslim youths in a gruesome video that led to the arrest...

President Bush granted seven pardons on Wednesday to people who have all long since served their sentences for relatively minor offenses. Most of the recipients had been found guilty of commiting various white-collar crimes - one had been convicted...

The British government Thursday is reintroducing controversial legislation designed to curb religious hatred, despite criticism that the law would overly restrict speech. The law was introduced last year, but didn't get through parliament before the general...