Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Tuesday began the long process of documenting personal statements on crimes and abuses committed during the country's 14-year civil war . Jerome Verdier [ELaw...
The International Committee of the Red Cross has completed its first meeting with prisoners now held by US forces at the expanded Camp Cropper prison in Iraq, according to a press release posted on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill officially ratifying the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism , the Kremlin announced Tuesday. A Kremlin statement described the convention as "the first...
Dick Marty , the Swiss parliamentarian who has been leading the Council of Europe probe into CIA terror secret prisons and renditions in Europe , announced Tuesday that he intends to accompany UN Special...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the consolidated case of Lopez v. Gonzales and Toledo-Flores v. US , in which the Court will...
Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim Edition) of B.E. 2549, October 1, 2006, unofficial English translation . Read the full text of the...
A coalition of Thai democracy activists and academics Tuesday called for newly appointed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to lift the martial law imposed on the country by the military leaders who seized power...
A group of four UN human rights envoys reported Tuesday that Israel and Hezbollah both broke international humanitarian law during the 34-day Middle East conflict . Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative on displaced people Walter Kaelin,...
The US military commission expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told ABC News on Tuesday. Ruddock added...
Microsoft filed an appeal with the European Court of First Instance on Tuesday, contesting the $357 million fine imposed against it by the European Commission in July for...