The Mexican government enacted a law Monday prohibiting the government from sending illegal immigrants to prison. In May, Mexican rights activists pressed Mexican President Felipe Calderón to sign the bill,...
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Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg released a report on Monday emphasizing the need for European governments to critically examine their human rights records and patterns of discrimination. The report, entitled "Human Rights in...
The Malaysian government will table a bill at the August parliamentary session that would require criminal suspects to submit to DNA testing, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau . If passed,...
Two men involved in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic planes leaving a London airport pleaded guilty to lesser conspiracy charges Monday in London's Woolwich Crown Court . Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman [Global...
A divorced Lebanese woman told the UK Law Lords Monday that her human rights would be violated if she were deported to Lebanon, arguing that Lebanese Sharia law would put her and...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Monday that Congress should pass legislation guiding US civilian courts on how to conduct Guantanamo detainees' habeas corpus proceedings because the judiciary should...
Singapore's Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan announced on Monday that the country is considering allowing donors to sell their kidneys to those seeking transplants. Boon Wan made the announcement before the country's parliament and...
Egyptian police arrested 39 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on Monday, including three local party leaders in the city of Kafr El Sheikh, according to an MB statement . The group has...
Myanmar signed on to a new Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) charter Monday, despite other ASEAN members' criticism of the country's human rights record and continued detention of opposition leader Aung San...
The head of the League of Arab States on Sunday presented a plan to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir recommending how he should react to an application...
