Independent UN expert Kishore Singh on Friday urged world leaders to guarantee the availability of quality education without discrimination, particularly for girls, minorities and indigent children. “The right to education means more than just being able to attend school,” Singh said. Singh also emphasized the increasing importance of educational quality in technical and vocational education [...]
Human rights defenders in Zimbabwe continue to be harassed, victimized and threatened, according to a report released Monday by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OBS) . The OBS, a joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture , published the 31-page report entitled [...]
The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor sent a letter to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday requesting materials and evidence from the case files of two Croatian generals, whose convictions were overturned by the ICTY last week. The 3-2 decision to overturn the convictions has sparked outrage in [...]
German prosecutors on Monday charged 91-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS Siert Bruins with the murder of a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. The Dortmund prosecutor accused Bruins of executing captured Dutch Nazi-opposition fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 outside the town of Appingedam. Bruins and an accomplice, who has since died, [...]
Apple filed a motion on Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California requesting permission to add six additional products to its patent infringement claim against Samsung Electronics . According to court documents, Apple seeks to supplement its claim with newer Samsung products brought to market after the original lawsuit was [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Mastropolo, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the twelfth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Mastropolo argues that New York criminal statutes should be amended to allow for more lenient sentencing standards for [...]
Egypt President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday agreed to meet with judges after issuing a decree that removed judicial review of his actions and vastly expanded his power. Morsi has indicated that the decree is temporary and was not intended to focus power in the presidency. Morsi plans to meet with judges on Monday to discuss [...]
The European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Saturday arrested Fatmir Limaj, a prominent political figure in the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Limaj was arrested for his actions actions during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo . He will face war crimes charges from [...]
The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) chastised Russia on Friday for intimidating journalists and human rights activists and ignoring allegations of torture. The CAT, a panel composed of 10 human rights experts, presented a report on Friday that laid out a set of criticisms against Russia and urged Russia to take immediate action to prevent [...]
New Zealand announced Friday that it will support Australia in an ongoing legal dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between Australia and Japan over Japanese whaling near Antarctica. Australia filed a complaint against Japan in the ICJ in May 2011 arguing that Japan’s whaling practices in the Antarctic violate the International Convention for [...]
