A leading member of the Catholic Church expressed concern Thursday that the Church could be prosecuted for some of its traditional religious positions against abortion, same-sex marriage and stem cell research . In an interview [transcript, in...
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South Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional provisions in the controversial Newspaper Law and the Press Arbitration Law that restrict the circulation of three conservative daily newspapers and authorize the government to compel newspaper...
Franco Frattini , the EU commissioner for justice, freedom and security, has proposed that national governments of EU member states shift regulation of law enforcement cooperation, cross-border policing and basic rights for criminal suspects to the...
The UN's top humanitarian expert told the UN Security Council Wednesday that immediate action must to be taken to prevent civilian deaths in ongoing armed conflicts in several countries. Jan Egeland , UN Under-Secretary-General...
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Excerpt from the Opinion by Justice Stevens:Petitioner Salim Ahmed Hamdan,...
Clark v. Arizona, Supreme Court of the United States, June 29, 2006 . Read the Court's majority opinion per Justice Souter,...
The Campaign Against Impunity , a group of 300 African and international civil society bodies, has urged the African Union Assembly to call on Senegal to try former Chad President Hissene Habre [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news...
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ordered the 2000 killing of communist-era Serbian President Ivan Stambolic , his former mentor, to consolidate his hold on power in the former Yugoslavia, Serbia's Supreme Court said in a...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has given preliminary approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Yahoo! Inc. overcharged for pay-per-click advertising. As part of the agreement, approved Wednesday by US District Judge Christina...
A group of nine low-income citizens filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Wednesday seeking to enjoin legislation requiring proof of citizenship for Medicaid beneficiaries from taking...
