Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, March, 2006 . Read the full...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Friday that the Swedish government has accepted its invitation to conduct an audit of the Scheveningen detention unit outside of...

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Friday at a hearing on a resolution put forward by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush for...

Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from...

Text of a televised address on the CPE (contrat premiere embauche) by French President Jacques Chirac, March 31, 2006 .Excerpt:Le Parlement, les élus de la Nation,...

The EU on Friday extended its deadline for Serbia to hand over wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic to April 30 after chief ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte [BBC News profile,...

French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that he will sign the First Employment Contract (CPE) , a controversial labor law which, in its current form, includes a provision allowing employers to hire workers under 26 for a...

Tony Rudy , former deputy chief of staff and press secretary to US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) , pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy Friday. Rudy admitted to working with convicted lobbyist Jack...

In a verdict upholding gender equality, the Supreme Court of Nepal ruled Thursday that men can no longer divorce their wives on grounds of the latter's infertility. A special bench of the court declared a provision in...

Polish prosecutors on Friday charged General Wojciech Jaruzelski with "organizing crimes of a military nature" and "carrying out crimes that consisted of the deprivation of freedom through internment" for his imposition of martial law ...