Situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Commission on Human Rights, February 16, 2005. Excerpt:The Chairperson of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the...

Leading Thursday's international brief, the civilian criminal trial of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye and his 22 co-defendants has been postponed until after the upcoming national elections in Uganda. Ugandan Deputy Director for Public Prosecutions Simon...

In an interview on the Fox News Channel Wednesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney said that while he may be called as a witness in the CIA leak case and therefore...

Recently released photographs and video showing the apparent abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison show clear violations of international humanitarian law, a spokeswoman for International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov Wednesday told the Duma , Russia's lower house, that Russian society was to blame for instances of military conscript abuse and hazing that have scandalized the...

The European Union (EU) is voicing reservations about human rights in Belarus in the wake of a growing number of reports of abuses there. At the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday,...

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...