UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday that he hopes to visit Myanmar soon, after meeting with President Thien Sein . Ban also congratulated Sein on the country’s strive toward democracy, as well as its naming as new chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) last [...]
As many as 50,000 protesters took to Tahrir Square in Egypt on Friday, decrying the military’s continued rule over the nation since the this year’s revolution, and on Saturday were met with a reported violent reprisal from police forces. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) organized the protests earlier this week in an attempt to force the [...]
Philippine authorities formally charged former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo with electoral sabotage Saturday, a day after she was arrested on a warrant issued for charges of corruption and election fraud that occurred during her time as president. The Philippine Commission on Elections approved fraud charges against Arroyo Friday and she was arrested in her hospital [...]
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in southern Libya Friday, officials of the country’s interim government have announced. A fugitive since his father’s regime fell last month , the highest-profile son of deceased former dictator Muammar Gaddafi was arrested without a fight in the desert near the southern city of Sabha. Saif al-Islam was captured overnight [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says there is a systematic dysfunction within the bureaucracy of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility that impacts the capability of attorneys to adequately represent their clients… The seizure and review of attorney-detainee legal materials [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Guffanti, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2013, is a Staff Editor for the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Journal. He writes on the possible outcome of Yves Saint Laurent v. Louboutin, which is on appeal in the Second Circuit, and its potential impact on the fashion industry… Fashion items [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter said Friday that the World Trade Organization (WTO) must make food security a top priority at its global trade talks next month. De Schutter stressed that WTO policies do not adequately ensure the right to food in developing countries, especially as international food prices [...]
Prosecutors in the UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) filed an immediate appeal on Friday of the court’s decision to release Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Thirith after finding her unfit to stand trial. The judges found, based on the opinions of a geriatrician and four psychiatrists , that Ieng’s incapacity to remember [...]
A jailed former Sri Lanka army chief was sentenced on Friday to an additional three years in prison for reportedly implicating his country’s defense secretary in war crimes at the end of the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war . In the High Court ruling, two out of three judges found that the comments made to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request to block the release of names on Washington state petitions for Referendum 71 (R-71) opposing domestic partnerships. Last month, the Washington secretary of state began to release the names after a federal judge lifted an injunction against their release. The release [...]
