February 3, 2010 The courtroom was packed for yesterday's [February 2, 2009] hearing in the breast cancer gene patents case, a testament to the significance of our challenge. Both sides argued that the judge should...

Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...

Thousands of Afghan civilians have began fleeing their homes before a threatened US military offensive against Taliban fighters. International Red Crescent aid workers in the southern Afghanistan city of Marjah, Helmand province, reported that US...

The successful creation of more medical facilities has seen new developments in the capital and outside. A post-operative "village" has been assembled in tents in an area called Delmas 30. Patients will be taken there...

Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to...

The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists. The interior ministry is ready...

Seven young doctors have just arrived at the Croix des Bouquets field hospital. They have come from the United States and wish "to help their Cuban brothers and sisters in attending to the suffering Haitian...

MOSCOW - The leader of democratically elected Palestinian movement Hamas met here Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on efforts to reunify the two main Palestinian independence movements. "We met to pursue...

A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's  Ramallah offices. The two will...

After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...