Top UN officials with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) decried post-election violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Thursday and called for restraint. Acknowledging reports from international...
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated on Thursday that the death toll in Syria during the eight-month uprising has surpassed 4,000 . Pillay recommended that the UN Security Council...
Transparency International (TI) Thursday released its 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) , again showing some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making. The CPI...
Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , will be formally recommended Thursday to succeed Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo when his nine-year term expires next year. Liechtenstein's UN...
British American Tobacco (BAT) brought legal action in Australia's High Court on Thursday in response to the country's new tobacco packaging laws. Two weeks ago, Parliament enacted the Tobacco Plain Packaging...
A Tunisian military court on Wednesday convicted former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on torture charges. Ben Ali and eight others were found guilty of the torture of 17 military generals in...
A team of investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in Libya on Wednesday to begin an inquiry into new allegations of sex crimes committed by loyalists of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST...
Preliminary hearings for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko began on Thursday in the appeal of Tymoshenko's seven-year prison sentence . Tymoshenko was convicted of corruption and abuse of authority while negotiating a...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday filed notice that it intends to appeal an injunction that blocked new graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. In early November, a judge for the US District...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday. In Setser v. US , the justices heard arguments on a federal district court's power to determine whether a...
