The UN Human Rights Committee has criticized Yemen for not incorporating many of its 2002 recommendations for civil and political rights in the country. Some major concerns of the Committee were...

A new report released today by Human Rights Watch is adding to international concerns that a Colombian law intended to encourage paramilitary groups to disarm is too soft and would not allow...

Former rebel leader John Garang , who eventually made peace and joined the Sudanese government as a vice-president, died over the weekend in a helicopter crash, sparking riots and threatening to destabilize the region. Officials in Sudan said...

An FBI memo obtained by Newsweek to be reported in its August 8 print edition warned three years ago that government officials could be prosecuted for planning transfers of terrorism suspects to countries that allow torture, a process called...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday took up a government challenge to a controversial morals law passed by its North-West Frontier Province on the border with Afghanistan that provides for Taliban-style enforcement of Islamic law....

Indonesia Monday announced the membership of a 10-member Truth and Friendship Commission formed to investigate the 1999 violence in East Timor that left around 1,400 dead. Half will hail from Indonesia with the other half coming from...

The lawyer representing the family of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi , who died in Iranian custody in July 2003 amidst allegations of torture and abuse , was arrested over the weekend on charges of spying. Abdolfattah Soltani...

Two former military prosecutors characterized the military tribunals at Guantanamo as "a fraud" and rigged" in e-mails written last year and just obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Major Robert Preston wrote to his superviser:I consider...

New York Governor George Pataki said late Sunday that he will veto legislation that would permit women to purchase the "morning-after" pill without a prescription, a decision criticized by pro-choice groups as simply an effort...

The US Department of Justice released its first report on prison rape on Sunday in accordance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 , but admitted that most incidents were probably never reported...