The US House of Representatives late Wednesday approved a job-training bill that would allow faith-based organizations which receive federal funds to consider the religious beliefs of prospective employees. The vote on HR 27, the Job Training Improvement...

An Indonesian court Thursday found radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir guilty of conspiracy to commit the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people. The five-judge panel found that although Ba'asyir was not directly...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, March 3.The US Senate will convene at 9:30 AM ET today, and it will consider S.J.Res. 4 , expressing disapproval...

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2004, International Narcotics Control Board , March 2, 2004 [saying that drug trafficking in Afghanistan is threatening to undermine the rule of law and democracy in the country, and could also threaten...

Queen v. Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal , Lord Justice Brooke, March 2, 2005 [ruling that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab,...

Momcilo Perisic, a former general and chief of staff of the Yugoslav army under Slobodan Milosevic and later a Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia who pressed for co-operation with international war crimes prosecutors , has...

US officials announced Wednesday they will no longer require a new UN declaration on women's issues to take an anti-abortion position. The current meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women , held to review progress...

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded Wednesday to American criticisms of Russia's human rights record in the recent 2004 US State Department human rights reports by accusing the US of double standards. The State Department...

The US Supreme Court Wednesday considered two high-profile cases on the constitutionality of public displays of the Ten Commandments. The Court heard oral arguments in Van Orden v. Perry regarding a large and prominently-displayed monument of...

Dietrich Snell, senior counsel for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and NY deputy attorney general, said Wednesday that he will testify at the German trial of 9/11 suspect Mounir El Motassadeq [BBC...