Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, April 24, 2006 [criticizing the efforts of countries around the world as ineffective in blocking the flow of people smuggled into countries, many of whom are sexually exploited...
Legal arguments began in Colchester, England, Monday in the court-martrial trial of four British soldiers accused of killing an Iraqi prisoner in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003. The four soldiers are accused of forcing Ahmed...
Text of a letter on the "nuclear option" to President George W. Bush from thirteen leading US physicists, including five Nobel Laureates, April 17, 2006 [urging that the US not consider using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of...
President Bush Monday rejected the option of deportation for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the US, asking Congress to keep in mind that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings as it prepared to take...
So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 [calling the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" and urging the federal government and the 37 out of...
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Brigham County v. Stewart , a case in which the Court will clarify the type of emergency situation required...
A federal judge in Boston Monday dismissed a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed forces represented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) challenging the militarys Dont ask,...
Kenneth Lay , former CEO and founder of Enron , told a jury Monday that the collapse of the company in 2001 has caused him "hurt and destruction and pain" on...
Forty-nine leftist Philippines politicians, including six current lawmakers and former Senator Gregorio Honasan , face charges of rebellion for allegedly conspiring with the Communist Party of the Philippines to kill and replace President Gloria Macapagal...
The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close...