Four advocacy groups on Thursday filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of Haitian citizens, alleging that the US violated Haitian sovereignty by illegally preventing the flow of financial...

The UK government said Thursday that it will hold a full public consultation on whether prisoners should be granted the right to vote. The decision comes in response to a European Court of Human Rights ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal judge considering a shutdown of the BlackBerry wireless email network to exempt government workers who rely on the technology. The DOJ submitted a list of...

Efforts to amend the Florida constitution to ban same-sex marriage have faltered as supporters of an amendment failed to meet a Wednesday deadline to secure enough signatures to put the issue on the November ballot....

The European Commission has told Germany and Luxembourg that the Commission is preparing to take legal action against the countries if they fail to bring national tobacco advertising laws into compliance with an EU directive...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has denied allegations from Amnesty International that the government has unlawfully detained thousands of protestors as part of the latest anti-government crackdown. Amnesty has said that thousands of students from...

Human rights observers have accused the US of ignoring a deteriorating situation in Russia, including crackdowns on the media and overreach of executive power. Mark Medish, a spokesman for the independent Council on Foreign Relations, told the US Commission...

The Bush administration has declined requests from the US Senate Judiciary Committee to produce classified legal opinions on the NSA's domestic spying program for a hearing scheduled for Monday . The...

Irwin Cotler , the outgoing Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has said that despite some indications from Canada's incoming Conservative party government , he doubts that the country's recently enacted same-sex marriage law [JURIST...

The US House on Wednesday approved a new short-term extension of the USA Patriot Act that will last until March 10. Certain provisions of the law were originally set to expire on December 31, but were extended...