UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Public Health Officer Heiko Hering said Wednesday that the large-scale anti-malaria effort recently launched by the United Nations Foundation is part of fulfilling the service obligations of the Convention and Protocol...
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Navy defense attorney Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier was given rare access on Wednesday to Camp Seven , a special Guantanamo camp for alleged al Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees" at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
A judge for the Moscow District Military Court on Wednesday ordered that the trial of three men accused in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya be closed to the public. This essentially reversed his...
Amnesty International (AI) called Tuesday for an international investigation into the deaths of civilians during the August 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia . A new...
The Supreme Court of Nepal has directed the country's government to end sexual orientation-based discrimination and to extend equal rights to gender minorities, including same-sex marriage . The order, made Monday, came in a lawsuit...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Croatia accusing Serbia of genocide...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday upheld a New Hampshire law that prohibits the gathering of data from prescription drug records to target pharmaceutical sales to...
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis on Tuesday called on officials to end discrimination against Europe's Roma minority . Davis' comments came in response to a Monday confrontation ...
Eric Holder , Deputy US Attorney General during the Clinton administration, has been asked and has agreed to serve as US Attorney General for the incoming administration of now President-elect Barack Obama, according to media reports...
Two alleged Bosnian war criminals were arrested Tuesday on orders from the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Radivoje Lalovic and Soniboj Skiljevic are charged with war crimes allegedly committed during the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo...
