HB 184, passed by the New Hampshire Senate, June 7, 2007 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A Swiss court Thursday cleared nineteen former executives and consultants of the now-defunct Swissair Group of all charges Thursday in connection with their role in the collapse of the national airline that was once nicknamed the "flying bank" for its financial stability. Presiding judge Andreas Fischer ruled that the prosecution had failed to demonstrate that [...]

Hate crimes are on the rise throughout Europe , rights watchdog Human Rights First reported Thursday in a study examining recent hate crimes in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Hate crimes against Muslims in London rose by approximately 600 percent following the 2005 London bombings , according to the study. It also [...]

Canada is stalling the discussion and adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , according to a Thursday statement by Amnesty International (AI) . The declaration was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council by a vote of 30-2 with 12 abstentions in June of last year, and has been submitted [...]

Dr. Julie Gerberding , Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) , testified before the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Wednesday in the wake of a tuberculosis scare that US interstate [...]

An Italian jury acquitted all five defendants accused of murdering banker Roberto Calvi Wednesday after almost two days of deliberation. Italian prosecutors have not yet decided whether to appeal the acquittal. Calvi, who was found hung under London's Blackfriars Bridge in June 1982, was known as "God's Banker" for his financial ties to the Vatican. [...]

Major General Nadeem Ijaz, the director general of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (MI) and a close relative of President General Pervez Musharraf, filed an affidavit with the Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday alleging that suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry wanted Musharraf to dissolve the government and appoint Chaudhry leader of an interim government and also [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that victims of forced abortions are "statutorily entitled" to prevent their removal from the United States by requesting asylum under Sec. 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act . The court reversed an immigration judge's finding that the petitioner, Chinese national Tang Zi Zhi [...]

At least 39 "ghost detainees" have been held by the US CIA in secret detention facilities, according to a report jointly published Thursday by six leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and Human Rights Watch. The report specifically identifies three detainees, [...]

The US Senate voted 49-48 Wednesday evening to approve an amendment to the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 , restricting the Y-1 temporary guest worker visa program to five years. An earlier attempt to limit the proposed temporary guest visa program was rejected by a 48-49 vote two weeks earlier. Senator Byron Dorgan [...]