International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Saturday that the court will launch investigations specifically aimed at three to six individuals for their alleged involvement in post-election violence following last...
Members of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group defended the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a filing on Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California...
A disabled Navy veteran filed a notice of appeal Thursday with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for denying her partner a share of her disability benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday rejected a request by Judicial Watch and the Media Research Center (MRC) for documents pertaining to...
International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrived in the Ivory Coast Saturday to investigate allegations of war crimes committed during post-election violence following last November's elections. Thousands were...
The Security Service of Ukraine on Thursday brought new corruption charges against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , just days after she was sentenced to seven years in prison...
The Taiwan High Court on Thursday sentenced former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian to 18 years in prison after finding him guilty of financial fraud, overturning a lower court ruling....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged the international community to take steps to protect civilian lives in Syria, where more than 3,000 civilians have been killed since protests against the government...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday temporarily blocked portions of a controversial Alabama immigration law . The ruling came in response to a motion filed last week [JURIST...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food , Olivier De Schutter , announced on Thursday that he supports a Mexican constitutional reform which recognizes the right to food . The reform targets articles 4 and...