Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan on Wednesday urged Kenya to establish a local tribunal to prosecute those who perpetrated violence in the wake of the 2007 presidential elections . Annan made the remarks at the end of a three-day visit to Kenya to monitor the progress of the peace agreement and coalition government that he [...]

The Australian public wants legislative protections for human rights in their country, according to a government report released Wednesday by the Human Rights Consultation Committee . According to the report, Australians believe that their country adequately protects human rights, but that further protections could be extended to a number of vulnerable groups. Among those groups [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating IBM for allegations of antitrust violations stemming from their sales of mainframe computers, according to Wednesday media reports. Competitors allege that IBM is dominating the mainframe computer market by not allowing its operating systems to run on non-IBM mainframes. The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) maintains [...]

The US Senate Judiciary Committee was urged Wednesday to adopt measures to address recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act . Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) expressed concern that protections put in place by the ADEA would be undermined by the Court's June decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services , [...]

Members of the Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Committee reached an agreement Wednesday that would allow Guantanamo Bay detainees to be transferred to the US for trial. The compromise would allocate $42.78 billion for the Homeland Security appropriations bill and would stipulate that current detainees may be transferred to the US for prosecution after information is [...]

A US military judge on Wednesday dismissed the military lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr in accordance with Khadr's request. During Wednesday's brief hearing, Col. Patrick Parrish accepted the resignation of Navy Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler , who will be replaced by former federal prosecutors and civilian lawyers, Barry Coburn and Kobie Flowers of [...]

The Italian Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck down the 2008 law granting immunity from prosecution to the four highest officials of the country, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , finding it unconstitutional. The high court ruled 9-6 against the law, basing the decision on principles contained in article 3 and article 138 of the Italian [...]

Adrienne Lester, Pitt Law '11, interned at the Honorable House of Representatives for the Republic of Liberia this summer… West Africa evokes images of Juju child soldiers, dismembered limbs, and volatile men in short-sleeved safari suits with aviator sunglasses. When I had the opportunity to intern with the House of Representatives for the Republic of [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in three cases. In Salazar v. Buono , the Court heard arguments on whether an individual has Article III standing to bring a suit under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment challenging the display of a religious symbol on government land and if an Act of [...]

Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday granted the government's motion to dismiss the petition for habeas corpus brought on behalf of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Idris Ahmad Abdu Qadir Idris . The petition was filed in 2005 by the Federal Public Defenders with Guantanamo detainee Sami [...]