Former Pakistan prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif has threatened to withdraw from the government if all of the judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf [official website; JURIST news...
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] The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City announced on Thursday that it has agreed to pay $10 million to settle 47 sexual abuse claims against the church. The deal also required the church...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced on Wednesday that his office is reviewing allegations that war crimes have been committed during the recent conflict over Georgia's breakaway region...
London's High Court on Thursday ruled that the UK Foreign Office must turn over evidence "essential" to the defense of Binyam Mohamed , the last British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a Tennessee public high school in a lawsuit brought by three students who claimed the...
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) announced on Wednesday that Iraq has signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) . Only a few of the world's major nations are...
A US district court judge ruled Wednesday that US Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) cannot transfer his corruption trial to Alaska from Washington, DC. Rejecting Stevens' argument that he needed to be in Alaska to...
The Chicago Urban League (CUL) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit insisting that Illinois' current school funding scheme be declared unconstitutional in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 . CUL challenges the state's...
Officials for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry have said that they plan to prosecute those suspected of torturing inmates of the country's prison system, according to a Wednesday report . The country signed on to the UN's Convention Against...
Indonesian Attorney General Hendarman Supandji announced Wednesday that the men convicted of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will not be executed until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which the death penalty...
