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A group of 112 former presidents and prime ministers signed a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urging him to pay a visit to Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...

South African Archbishop and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu Monday criticized the United States and Great Britain for detaining terror suspects without trial, describing the practice as "a huge blot on democracy". He expressed surprise at the ease...

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that under the Bush administration the United States "for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principles of human rights". He told CNN's Wolf...

Fifteen activists involved in a prayer vigil calling for the release of Myanmar Nobel laureate and political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi were arrested Wednesday and released later in the day by the military government...

Former US President Gerald R. Ford died Tuesday at the age of 93. A 1941 Yale Law School graduate who became GOP House Minority Leader during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson,...

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of Governor Sonny Perdue , asking the court to overturn a lower court judge's Friday decision...

Former US President Jimmy Carter told a conference of human rights leaders at the The Carter Center in Atlanta Wednesday that immigration was a human rights issue and that he backed the Comprehensive Immigration...

UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson said Monday that he is "encouraged" by the public support of five Nobel Peace Prize winners for the proposed UN Human Rights Council. Former US president Jimmy Carter [official...

Former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday that President Bush overstepped his constitutional powers by authorizing the NSA's domestic surveillance program . The former president was also critical of Monday's testimony ...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and members of his Fatah party Cabinet submitted their resignations Thursday after initial results from Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections - the first in ten years - appeared to give the militant...