Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu and international NGO Oxfam Thursday called on developing nations to submit proposals for a conventional weapons convention to the United Nations . Tutu urged developing nations especially to submit proposals...
READ MORE ▸
Chinese government authorities detained 28 people for either their alleged role in riots in southwestern China over the weekend or communicating information concerning the riots, according to reports from Xinhua, China's state media agency. Xinhua said that...
Suspended Romanian President Trian Basescu was reinstated Wednesday after the Romanian Constitutional Court certified results of a weekend referendum where 74 percent of voters rejected Basescu's impeachment . Basescu was...
The government of Burundi and the United Nations (UN) agreed Wednesday to establish a tribunal to try those accused of war crimes during the nation's 12-year civil war , according to the UN....
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine limited the president's power to appoint and dismiss members of local judiciaries on Wednesday. The ruling affirmed that of the country's High Justice Council . In Ukraine, local...
The US House of Representatives narrowly passed the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act Wednesday, approving heavy criminal penalties for oil companies and individuals who take "unfair advantage" or charge "unconscionably excessive" prices for fuel....
Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice upheld the rights of trade unions in two opinions Wednesday. In Laval v. Partneri (C-341/05) , Mengozzi advised the court to allow...
Milorad Ulemek, paramilitary commander under Slobodan Milosevic , was convicted with 11 others on Wednesday for the assassination of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic . The Special Court in Belgrade sentenced Ulemek to...
Former US Department of Justice aide Monica Goodling testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday about the fired US Attorneys scandal , saying she did not play a key role in the...
Amnesty International Report 2007: the state of the world's human rights, Amnesty International, March 23, 2007 [condemning the US and other Western democratic states for their attempts to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights in their efforts to...
