UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday urged all countries to sign and abide by international treaties banning landmines International Mine Awareness Day . Those treaties include the Ottawa Treaty , which bans all anti-personnel landmines,...

The state of North Carolina is violating international freedom of association labor standards by prohibiting governmental entities from bargaining with unions, according to a decision released Tuesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO) , the labor...

Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani said Tuesday he in fact did not oppose a proposed law which would return former Baath party members to their previously held government...

A former Bosnian Serb soldier was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday on rape and torture charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Dragan Zelenovic ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday at a news conference in Tehran that he had "pardoned" and was releasing 15 British military personnel detained by Iranian forces earlier this month, and...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has refused to rescind Monday's decree ordering parliament to dissolve and new elections to be held in May as the constitutional crisis in Ukraine continues. On Tuesday, Yushchenko met with...

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will not speak to the media in violation of a court order, Hicks' lawyer said Wednesday. Despite statements by Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock that Australia cannot...

Human Rights groups REDRESS and the International Federation for Human Rights said Tuesday that the European Union should hold trials for the 37 Rwandan genocide suspects known to be living in European countries. The suspects have been...

Monica M. Goodling, on leave from her post as special counsel to the US Attorney General, told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she will not speak to the committee about her role in last year's...

US v. David Matthew Hicks, Offer for a Pretrial Agreement, US Office of Military Commissions, March 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the plea agreement]. Reported...