UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Monday with Nepal for its failure to meet the Sunday deadline to write a new constitution. With the country’s failure to draft a new constitution, Ban is concerned that the country may face another period of turmoil and urges the government should undertake every effort to prevent such: Nepal [...]
Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was released on bail on Monday, according to his lawyer. Rajab was arrested for insulting a statutory body through messages he posted on Twitter criticizing the Interior Ministry. Rajab is the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) , a group that has been critical of the Bahraini [...]
Most of the victims of a recent massacre in Houla, Syria , were shot at close range, including women and children, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed Tuesday. UN officials disclosed that most of the civilians killed during last week’s massacre appeared to be victims of execution, including 32 [...]
Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has ended his hunger strike because he believes he has adequately raised awareness of his cause , Al-Khawaja’s wife told Reuters on Monday. Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for over three months to protest the imprisonment of Bahraini pro-democracy demonstrators, including himself. He was sentenced to life [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the government’s unwillingness to clearly define which activities would make someone a ‘covered person’ under section 1021 of the NDAA likely resulted in a US District Court ruling that the section was unconstitutional…
The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) of Egypt announced presidential election results on Monday and declared that there will be a run-off election between the top two candidates later in June. The run-off will be between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik. The SPEC reported the margin between [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sandeep Kanak Rathod, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the ninth entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He explores how copyright laws in the US and India differ… In its definition of [...]
US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will nominate Dr. Allison Macfarlane as the new head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) . Macfarlane is known as an advocate for safe nuclear waste removal and is notably opposed to the Yucca Mountain project . This project intended to build the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste [...]
Special war crimes tribunals of the government of Bangladesh on Monday indicted the chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, along with his deputy, for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan. Matiur Rahman Nizami, the chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, was indicted on sixteen counts , including genocide, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled on Friday that a lawsuit opposing a Ten Commandments monument displayed on property owned by the City of Fargo, North Dakota, may move forward. The nonprofit group Red River Freethinkers filed suit against Fargo in 2002, claiming that the city violated group members’ constitutional rights [...]
