Over 50 percent of eligible voters in Montenegro have already cast their ballots in Sunday's referendum on independence from Serbia, according to ballot observers from the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) , meeting...

Government officials in Iran are working on a draft bill , that would encourage a return to traditional Islamic religious dress in the workplace and in public. According to the Islamic Republic News...

Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has filed an appeal in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , the highest criminal court in the state, requesting that conspiracy charges against US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)...

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner has said that an estimated 35,000 detention beds are required to turn the Department's maligned "catch and release" program for dangerous illegal immigrants into a "catch and...

Finstuen v. Edmondson, District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Judge Robin Cauthron, May 20, 2006 [striking down a two year-old amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution that prevented Oklahoma from recognizing adoptions by gay parents that were finalized in...

In his weekly radio address Saturday President Bush publicly pressed his case for immigration reform for the third time this week and urged the Senate to pass a comprehensive immigration bill by the end of May...

The UN Committee against Torture has given Senegal 90 days to fulfill its obligations under the Convention Against Torture to put former Chad President Hissene Habre on trial for torture crimes...

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said Saturday that the British government will ask the European Court of Human Rights to review a long-standing ban against EU countries deporting individuals to countries where they would be at risk...

Russia Friday assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (COE) , the assembly responsible for maintaining human rights and democracy in Europe. Russian Minister...

Lawyers representing Hurricane Katrina evacuees filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court on Friday, seeking an injunction against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) preventing the agency from ending housing benefits after the twelve-month...