United Nations member states have begun announcing their candidacies for membership on the newly-formed Human Rights Council in preparations for elections scheduled May 9. The UN General Assembly approved the creation of...

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle , the Texas prosecutor in the criminal case against US Rep. Tom DeLay , has said that DeLay's resignation from Congress will not affect the case. DeLay...

Saddam Hussein on Wednesday defended his signing of a 1984 execution order as prosecutors began their cross examination of the former dictator before the Iraqi High Criminal Court at the...

Nepal's royal government has made its anti-terrorism law more stringent by introducing a fifth amendment to the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment) Ordinance (TADO), published in the official gazette on Monday. National and international human rights organizations...

Final results of inquest into the death of Slobodan Milosevic, The Hague District Public Prosecutor's Office, April 5, 2006 [concluding that Milosevic died a natural death in detention at the facilities of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former...

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis, Congressional Research Service, March 24, 2006. Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance', Amnesty International, April 5, 2006 . Read the full text...

Entertainment Software Association v. Granholm, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, Judge George Caram Steeh, March 31, 2006 [striking down a Michigan law prohibiting the sale of certain violent video games to minors, ruling...

The US Central Intelligence Agency hid its rendition of terrorism suspects to various foreign countries by using private air carriers and "front" companies, according to a new report released by...

A US military judge presiding over one of the military commission proceedings that resumed at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday appeared unsure of exactly what body of law would be applied in the...