Attorneys representing undocumented immigrants who have been victims of violent crimes filed a federal suit against the US Department of Homeland Security Tuesday for the agency's failure to issue U-visas. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 , allows the US Citizen and Immigration Services to issue undocumented immigrants substantially harmed by [...]

According to congressional aides, confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee are set to begin on November 7. The aides have said that committee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter plans an announcement later Wednesday. Republicans hope to have a full Senate confirmation vote by November 24. Senators [...]

The United Nations is not taking proper measures to end sexual abuse during peacekeeping missions, according to an independent review report released Tuesday. The report, filed by Refugees International, concludes that a "culture that tolerates sexual exploitation and abuse has evolved in UN peacekeeping missions." The Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been under scrutiny since [...]

An attorney for Jim Ellis, head of Americans for a Republican Majority and an associate of former House majority leader Tom DeLay , said in court documents Tuesday that all charges against Ellis are a result of government misconduct. Ellis, along with John Colyandro, has been charged with multiple felony violations in the investigation into [...]

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was cleared of corruption in a 1994 arms purchase case, a week after he was barred from running in Peru's 2006 presidential election by the country's Constitutional Court . Fujimori has been banned from office until 2010, though he says he intends to return to Peru to run [...]

Two Iraqi Kurds now living in the US, Hassen Ali Abdullah and Khalida Ali, have sued Saddam Hussein in US federal court, seeking compensation for Kurdish victims of genocidal attacks in 1980s Iraq. The class action suit was filed on behalf of all Kurds who lived in northern Iraq from 1987 to 1989 and any [...]

Lord Steyn, a recently retired UK senior judge, has said that the UK government had to scrape the bottom of the legal barrel in order to justify its invasion of Iraq. Lord Steyn also agreed with the conclusion of the outgoing chairman of rights group Justice that none of the government's grounds for intervention were [...]

The United Kingdom and Libya signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday which specifies that foreign nationals deported from the UK to Libya will not be mistreated upon their return. The agreement was signed by Britain's Ambassador to Libya Anthony Layden and the Libyan Acting Secretary for European Affairs, Abdulati Ibrahim al-Obidi. Responding to the [...]

CNN is reporting that Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, who is presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal , has ordered an adjournment of the proceeding until November 28. The order comes at the close of the first session of the trial, where [...]