US government lawyers on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two rights groups against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is expected to propose legislation that would allow the use of wiretap evidence in British courtrooms, specifically in cases of organized crime and terrorism, according to British press reports Tuesday. The...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Monday that her cabinet had approved a new bill to jump-start the biggest constitutional reform in Germany since 1949. The bill is meant...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke protested the failure of the United States to ratify the latest US-UK extradition treaty , ratified by the UK parliament in 2003, at a meeting Monday...

Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006, White House, March 6, 2006 [proposed bill giving the President "line-item" veto power over specific provisions in Congressional spending bills by empowering him to send special proposals on spending earmarks to Congress which would...

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Supreme Court of the United States, March 6, 2006 .Read the...

Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq, Amnesty International, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson said Monday that he is "encouraged" by the public support of five Nobel Peace Prize winners for the proposed UN Human Rights Council. Former US president Jimmy Carter [official...

French President Jacques Chirac , German Chancellor Angela Merkel , and other conservative European politicians have been meeting in private to discuss plans to revive the European Constitution [official...

An expert for Europe's largest security organization said Monday that prisoners held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are treated better than inmates in Belgian jails, after he returned from a visit to the...