The Hungarian government said Wednesday that it would accept one prisoner of its choosing from those still held at Guantanamo Bay in order to aid in the closure of the detention center....
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Israeli officials on Wednesday rejected a call by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict to establish an independent inquiry into accusations of war crimes during December and January's Operation Cast Lead in...
The UN General Assembly passed a resolution Monday to consolidate four agencies to create one large, overarching department that will be responsible for women's rights development. The UN Development Fund for Women, the Division...
Ninety members of the US House of Representatives introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Signed by former president Bill Clinton [official...
The French National Assembly voted 285-225 Tuesday to approve a new version of a controversial Internet piracy law after portions of it were rejected ...
Decision of the President on the Application for Pardon or Commutation of Sentence of Mrs. Biljana Plavsic, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, September 15, 2009 [approving the release of former Bosnian president Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds...
HR 3567: To repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage, US House of Representatives, September 15, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest...
Projet de loi.... relatif a la protection penale de la propriete litteraire et artistique sur Internet (Bill... on the criminal protection of literary and artistic property on the Internet), French National Assembly, September 15, 2009 [revising the original draft, thereby...
Human Rights in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories, United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, September 15, 2009 [reporting that both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity during Israel's "Operation Cast...
The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) in Afghanistan said Tuesday that ballots from about 10 percent of polls need to be recounted because of allegations of fraud in last month's presidential election. Canadian head of the ECC...
