A Swiss court has denied an appeal by the family of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier to claim money hidden in Swiss banks by Duvalier while he led the island nation. The family's claim was rejected by...
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Niger's opposition parties on Monday announced that they would resist any effort to implement a new constitution expanding executive powers, which was approved by Nigerien voters earlier this month and validated by the country's Constitutional...
Honduran Interim Deputy Foreign Minister Martha Alvarado said Monday that she expects a biased report from the international panel that arrived Monday to investigate alleged human rights abuses. A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), which...
An international coalition of human rights advocates have urged UN member nations to support a "competitive, genuinely-contested and principled electoral process" for future seats on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . In a letter sent...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the indictment of three men accused of perpetrating the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted in the US. Albert Gonzales and two...
In re: Troy Anthony Davis, US Supreme Court, August 17, 2009 .Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis . Davis had filed an original writ of...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that it was required to defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as long as "reasonable arguments can be made in support of constitutionality" despite the...
Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba was acquitted Monday of charges stealing money from the country's treasury while in office from 1991-2001. Chiluba and two Zambian businessmen, Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chungu, faced a total of 12 counts...
The Iraqi Cabinet on Monday approved a draft bill that would require a referendum on the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) , which allows US troops to remain in the country until the end of 2011. When...
