EU-U.S. extradition treaty worries U.N. rights expert
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A new extradition treaty between the European Union and the United States could be used to legitimize extra-judicial transfers of terrorist suspects and needs clarification, a U.N. expert said on Tuesday.
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There is growing fear among United Nations officials that Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organisation&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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BERLIN, Feb. 28 -- The State Department's top lawyer said Wednesday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, warning that European criminal prosecutions of U.S. agents were harming transatlantic counterterrorism efforts.
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A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to try release suspects detained as enemy combatants and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
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The European Union, heavily outnumbered by African and Asian members on the U.N. Human Rights Council, on Thursday defended a new accord governing the body that has been severely criticized by the United States.
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A European Union panel has doubts about the legality of a Bush administration program that monitors international financial transactions, the groupÂs leader said.
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The United States is  exposing deportees to the risk of torture by accepting the word  of foreign governments that prisoners won&#39;t be tortured if sent  home, lawyers for an Egyptian detainee argued on Thursday.
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The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
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LISBON, Dec 6  (IPS) - On the eve of the second Africa-European Union  summit, there is broad agreement on the need to defend human  rights, above all else. But academics, analysts and activists  from both continents harbour serious doubts that this noble aim  will find root in reality.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Seven months after a major investigation spelt out  Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping  programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are  powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future.
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LONDON, Nov. 30 -- Two British men charged with terrorism-related offenses may be extradited to the United States, a court ruled Thursday.
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The United States and European Union are undermining human rights worldwide by allowing countries with dubious elections like Pakistan and Kenya to pretend they are genuine democracies, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
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EU summit urged to agree to independence plan amid fear that Russia would oppose new UN mandate
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United Nations human rights   investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by   U.S. President George W. Bush for tough interrogations of   foreign terrorism suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions.
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A United Nations human rights body said  on Friday it had asked the United States to spell out the legal  status and treatment of people it is detaining in Afghanistan,  Guantanamo Bay and Iraq by the end of the year.
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U.N. human rights investigators criticized the United States on Thursday for failing to take steps to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison for terror suspects, which they say facilitates torture and violates international law.
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The United States pressed its case on Thursday for former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega's extradition to France, countering objections from his lawyers that prompted a Florida judge to suspend temporarily the court-approved extradition.