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The Congress of Peru on Wednesday approved a bill that would reform the country's private pension system. The bill, which will increase the number of workers while lowering the fees for contributors, was passed with...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Leonard, the Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University, says that the ICC should adhere to a policy of complementarity to bolster its legitimacy and foster a culture of justice among its member states...The...

JURIST Guest Columnist Damian Ugwu, Executive Director of the Social Justice & Advocacy Initiative, says that the recent bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria has ominous implications for a broad range of individual rights in the country...On November 29, 2011,...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday ended an injunction on damages levied against US oil company Chevron , making the company potentially liable for $18 billion...

The first civilian trial of an ex-Guantanamo detainee ended on Wednesday with the jury convicting Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on only one of 285 counts of conspiracy, murder and attempted murder for...

A Serbian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and sentences of three members of Serbia's "Scorpion" paramilitary group for the death of 14 civilians in March 1999 during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The...

A federal judge said Tuesday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani can be represented by his military lawyers in civilian court, pending the approval of superior officers. US District Judge...

The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad...

Scientists produced new evidence Wednesday supporting the claim of innocence of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. An analysis published...