While general security conditions in Iraq have improved, human rights violations have continued, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) . In its 13th report on the human rights...
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The US Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam opinion Tuesday in Hedgpeth v. Pulido that a harmless error standard should be applied when evaluating a conviction...
The head of Russia's Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) , Vladimir Milovidov , said Monday that next year Russia will create new laws that regulate insider trading and establish a compensation fund for victims of...
The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Tuesday ordered the dissolution of the ruling People's Power Party (PPP) , and banned prime minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday held in Associated Press v. United States Department of Justice that the petition for commuted sentence of charged Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh [CNN...
Canada took a step towards constitutional crisis Monday as the three federal opposition parties signed a landmark accord to defeat the Conservative minority government and form a new coalition government without an intervening election. If the Conservative...
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," to death for his involvement in the repression of Shiites in...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Kansas v. Colorado , the Court heard arguments on whether the Supreme Court must abide...
The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Monday condemning human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the close of a special session on renewed violence in...
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg said Monday that human rights standards have been undermined by the "war on terror." Hammarberg focused on blacklists created by UN Security Council Resolution 1267...
