Former New Orleans mayor and current President and CEO of the National Urban League Marc Morial has called for a Hurricane Katrina victim's compensation fund, similar to the one created in the...

A blue-ribbon California civil justice commission comprised of lawyers, judges, and academic, business, labor and community leaders has called for interpreters to be made available in civil as well as criminal cases in California courts. The California Commission on...

Nepali police Tuesday detained at least 250 pro-democracy activists - including a former deputy prime minister - for defying a ban on demonstrations in the Kathmandu city center. Protestors from seven major political parties took to the streets to...

The president of Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) , a national independent statutory government body, cautioned Tuesday that the country's proposed new anti-terrorism measures could violate human rights and said the legislation needed...

The Ukrainian Constitutional Court Tuesday approved by a 10-4 margin a draft law that would alter the country's constitution by limiting presidential authority while strengthening parliamentary control. The measure, to take effective on January 1, 2006,...

Italy's highest court upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday permitting the extradition of Hussain Osman , also known as Hamdi Issac, a suspect in the failed July 21 London bomb attacks . Osman, who is...

Guy Mansfield QC , chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales , told the Commonwealth Law Conference Monday that suspected terrorists must not be denied their legal and human rights. Mansfield said [prepared remarks,...

A court in Jordan sentenced 12 men Sunday to prison for plotting terrorist attacks against the US embassy and the Israeli embassy in Jordan. The men were also accused of planning attacks against a...

A nine-judge panel in Rwanda charged Belgian Catholic priest Guy Theunis Sunday with inciting and planning the 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Theunis was the first foreigner to appear before community "gacaca" courts...

Croatia has reopened the trial of eight former military policemen accused of torturing and killing Serb prisoners of war at the Lora military prison in 1992. In 2002, the former policemen were acquitted by a county court in Split,...