The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights took the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair to task Friday for urging the European Court of Human Rights to revisit its absolute prohibition against...
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UK parliament rights panel assails Blair stance on deportation to torture states
Belarus government seeks shutdown of human rights group
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British soldier found not guilty in Iraqi teen drowning
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Senate confirms Hayden as new CIA chief
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Senate confirms Kavanaugh to DC Circuit despite ABA downgrade, policy concerns
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Mexico president applauds US Senate immigration bill passage
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Federal court of appeals remands Georgia evolution disclaimer case
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UK Iraq war legal advice disclosure called inadequate
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Afghan rights commission says 34 civilians killed in US airstrike
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Egypt judges stage silent protest outside High Court for greater independence
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The Belarus Ministry of Justice has asked the Belarus Supreme Court to close down the Belarus Helsinki Committee , a leading human rights group that has consistently criticized the authoritarian government of President Alexander Lukashenko [official...
As the British Ministry of Defence continues investigating the deaths of several Iraqi detainees in British military custody , a military tribunal judge on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of manslaughter for allegedly forcing...
The full US Senate has approved the nomination of Air Force General Michael Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency by a vote of 78-15 . Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) was...
The US Senate on Friday confirmed the nomination of White House staffer Brett Kavanaugh to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by a margin of 57-36 after a test vote...
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday applauded the US Senate's approval of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 that would tighten border security and allow illegal immigrants to follow a...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday remanded an appeal from the Atlanta-based Cobb County School District asking the court to overturn a district court decision...
In the wake of Thursday's release by UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith of a disclosure statement outlining his actions in rendering advice on the legality of the Iraq war to the government of Prime...
A spokesman for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kandahar said Friday that some 34 Afghan civilians were killed in a US airstrike on a village in the south of the country earlier this week along...
As many as 300 reformist judges in Egypt who have called for more judicial independence from the government led by President Hosni Mubarak staged a silent protest in front of the High Court Thursday as...
