Jennifer Gratz et al. v. Lee Bollinger et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, January 31, 2007 [order approving settlement of a suit challenging the former affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan, decertifying the...

Morocco will become the first Arab country to eliminate the death penalty , a state representative confirmed on Thursday. President of the Consultative Committee on Human Rights, Ben Dhikri, made the comments in the run-up to this...

China is prepared to work with other countries to create an agreement that would prevent an arms race in space , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday. The statement comes amid international outcry ...

The UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has raised only half of the $33 million needed for the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , according to...

The French Parliament has put off debate on whether to allow class action lawsuits in the country's legal system after the French National Assembly struck proposed legislation from its February schedule in...

A UK jury Thursday convicted Abdul Saleem of inciting racial hatred for his role in leading protests outside the Danish embassy in London in February 2006 against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that...

US soldiers taunted detainees at Guantanamo Bay with pictures of Saddam Hussein's hanging in "an attempt to intimidate and compel submission under a threat of death and mentally torture," according to comments made Thursday...

A federal judge Wednesday reduced a $2.5 million punitive damage award to $1 million in a Hurricane Katrina insurance case, finding the award excessive at twelve times the amount of economic damages awarded. US...

A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered the National Intelligence Center , Spain's state intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about secret CIA extraordinary rendition flights . The order comes in Judge Ismael Moreno's investigation...

Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi said Wednesday that the Sudanese government can do a better job prosecuting war crimes in Darfur than the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In an interview with AP, al-Mardi reiterated Sudan's position...