The German EU presidency said Monday that it would support EU anti-racism legislation that would impose maximum one to three-year terms of imprisonment for "ublic incitement to hatred and violence for reasons of racism or xenophobia," but...
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Monday that rules under the Equality Act protecting same-sex couples' rights to adopt children without discrimination will apply without exception, denying special exemptions for faith-based adoption agencies...
Iraqi-born Dutch national Wesam al Delaema pleaded not guilty Monday to attacks on US troops in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2003. Al Delaema now faces conspiracy charges for allegedly...
The Wayne County Probate Court in Detroit, Michigan has scheduled a six-member jury trial for February 19 to settle the disputed estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks , famously arrested in 1955 for refusing to...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed war crimes charges Monday against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga , making Lubanga the first ICC defendant to face trial. As founder of the militant Union of...
Anti-abortion protestors took to the streets in Lisbon, Portugal Sunday in advance of a referendum vote scheduled for February 11 in which voters will decide whether to ease restrictions imposed by the current Portuguese abortion law...
Lawyers for Nicolo Pollari, the former head of the Italian Intelligence and Security Services (SISMI) , moved Monday to stop Pollari's trial on charges that he was involved in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP...
Libya is willing to release of five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children in exchange for compensation, Seif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Muhamar Gaddafi , told the...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered all branches of the military to minimize their use of "stop loss" tactics to keep soldiers on active duty beyond their service contracts, notwithstanding a series of court rulings upholding...
The government of Norway has proposed new legislation that would allow embryonic stem cell research to potentially find cures for various diseases. Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Silvia Brustad said...
