The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Saturday expressed concern over the humanitarian needs of nearly 14,000 Ivory Coast refugees who have fled to Liberia over the past month due to political instability and post-election...
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday urged incumbent Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo to step down, threatening the use of force if he attempts to maintain power. Gbagbo has refused to...
A judge for the Raipur Sessions Court of Chhattisgarh state India found human rights activist Binayak Sen guilty of aiding rebels and sentenced him to life imprisonment Friday, amid criticism from international rights groups....
The Russian State Duma voted 350-59 on Friday to approve the New START nuclear arms treaty with the US, after just hours of debate. The New START treaty replaces the...
A Swiss judge on Thursday called for the prosecution of three engineers who have links to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for allegedly smuggling nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan. After six years of investigation, Swiss federal magistrate...
The American rights group Freedom House on Thursday urged the US and European Union (EU) to renew full sanctions against Belarus in the wake of post-election unrest. Freedom House commended U.S. Secretary of...
The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an election challenged filed by Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller , allowing certification of the November results to move forward. Miller claimed that errors in the counting...
The Kenyan Parliament on Wednesday approved a motion to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The vote comes a week after ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo presented cases against [JURIST...
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning recent post-election violence in the Ivory Coast that has resulted in more than 170 deaths. Alassane Ouattara defeated incumbent Laurent Gbagbo ...
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for crimes against humanity during Argentina's "Dirty War" . The Federal Court of Cordoba [official website, in...
