Microsoft responded Wednesday to European Commission (EC) complaints of non-compliance with orders from a 2004 EC antitrust ruling to produce technical data by insisting in a 75-page report that the EC had...

Report on the Effective Respect for Human Rights in France, Alvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, February 15, 2006 [report strongly criticizing the French justice system, specifically highlighting overworked and underfunded courts and unsanitary conditions in overcrowded...

Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2006, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights, February 13, 2006 [report concluding that British control orders confining and/or regulating...

The US Department of Justice has opened an internal investigation into its role in the domestic surveillance program approved by President Bush, Rep. Maurice Hinchey said Wednesday. Counsel for DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility [official...

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would roll back some of the limited liability provisions for vaccine and drug manufacturers in times of public health or bioterror emergency. A group of 21 US Senate and House Democrats led...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been petitioned to force the country's government to bring an action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against countries where cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad ...

Hassan Bubacar Jallow , lead prosecutor for the UN-affiliated International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) asked Wednesday that the Tribunal transfer the case of former Rwanda official Michel Bagaragaza to Norway. Bagaragaza, who...

Indonesia on Wednesday defended death sentences handed down earlier this week against two Australians convicted for attempting to smuggle narcotics out of the country. An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman said the sentences were...

Reversing a stance taken in previous years, Idaho state senators Wednesday voted to put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment that would establish one man and one woman marriages as the "only domestic legal union that...

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the US Constitution because "the Constitution does not...