UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Wednesday called the election by the UN General Assembly of 47 member states to founding seats on the new UN Human Rights Council...

A panel of the US District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected a challenge brought by a nonprofit political interest group to the electioneering communication ban in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 [FEC...

The Australian and US governments will both have to approve the transfer of prisoners sentenced by US military commissions under the terms of a new agreement reached earlier this week, according to a statement from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander...

The federal government is violating First Amendment free speech rights by withholding federal HIV/AIDS funding from human rights groups working abroad who refuse to sign a pledge condemning prostitution, according to an opinion released Tuesday by a...

The lawyer for Moustafa Hassan Nasr , the Egyptian cleric who CIA operatives allegedly kidnapped and moved out of Italy to Egypt in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition , has claimed...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on the controversial renomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Kavanaugh faced probing questions from committee...

The alleged assassin of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has accused Serb police officers and other officials of forcing him to sign a statement that says he is responsible for the 2003 murder ...

The US House of Representatives Tuesday approved a bill limiting protests during military funerals. The Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act is aimed mainly at the renegade Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may find material at this church...

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark , now serving as a defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein , called the trial of the former Iraqi leader "a direct threat to international law, the...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the High Court in London has recommended that the UK hacker behind unprecedented attacks on US military computer systems in late 2001 and early 2002 be extradited to the US to face criminal charges [US...