Many UN member states are failing to hold other countries accountable for human rights violations , according to a UN Watch report released Friday. The report, entitled "Mutual Praise Society," focused on meetings of...
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US State Department spokesperson Robert Wood said Wednesday that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has told Congress that she intends to begin preliminary negotiations with Russia on a new treaty that would...
Convening authority of military commissions Susan Crawford announced Thursday that the Pentagon has formally dropped charges against suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahimal al-Nashiri . Crawford's order...
Sudan reissued a request to the UN Security Council Thursday to delay for one year war crimes charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged genocide in Darfur. International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Rachael Reid responded Friday to media accusations that she received secret information from British officer Lt. Col. Owen McNally, arrested this week on suspicion of leaking secret information...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that Bush administration immigration enforcement tactics were both overly-aggressive and ineffective, the Cardozo School...
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish member of the Grand National Assembly , the Turkish parliament, to 18 months in prison on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda. Aysel Tugluk was convicted in connection with...
Nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta testified Thursday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee that he would perform his duties according to the law while upholding...
Nominee for Deputy Attorney General David Ogden Thursday defended his representation of parties opposing anti-pornography and pre-abortion parental notification laws during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee . Ogden, who is presently in...
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday in New York for pancreatic cancer . Ginsburg, 75, is expected to remain at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...
