The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld California's "catch-all" jury instruction for death penalty cases, ruling that the instructions provide adequate opportunity for jurors to weigh evidence that favors the defendant. In a 5-4...

Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has started a hunger strike ahead of his trial, scheduled for November 27 at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), demanding that the...

An Australian bill of rights would frustrate the government's ability to deal with terrorism and other threats, Australia's attorney general told a meeting of Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) Monday. Australian Attorney General Phillip...

Certain portions of British courtroom proceedings could be televised in the near future, according to the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) , which is preparing to outline a proposal in a consultation paper to be released in the...

Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas again suggested Monday that martial law could be lifted by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont before the PM leaves for an international summit in Vietnam on November 18, and said that...

The UN's top political official has asked Myanmar's military government to release political prisoner and rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi after meeting with the rights activist over the weekend. Suu Kyi...

Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, entered into force November 12, 2006 Read the full text of the treaty. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Democrats in the US Congress will introduce legislation this week to maintain the authority of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) , according to the New York Times Sunday. SIGIR was originally established to independently supervise...

A landmark international treaty governing the clean-up of unexploded munitions left over from war went into effect Sunday. The Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War , has already been ratified by 26 states . Although major...

A top Iranian prosecutor called for the arrest and extradition of several Argentina officials and judges Sunday in response to an Argentinean judge's Thursday arrest order for former Iran President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [official website,...