The US Department of State (DOS) on Friday released the 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . The report outlined three prevailing trends that shaped human rights in 2010. These included the growth of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the increase in access to the Internet and mobile phones, and the continuing escalation of violence, persecution [...]
Human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Doctors Without Borders (DWB) criticized Bahrain on Friday for rampant human rights abuses related to anti-government protests. HRW deputy Middle East director Joe Stork criticized the island kingdom for using the emergency law to trample on human rights and create a state of fear. In a [...]
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Thursday filed a filed a Petition for Supervisory Writ directly to the state Supreme Court over a circuit court judge’s temporary blocking of a controversial bill that limits the rights of public employee unions. The suit claims that Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi did not have [...]
The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill on Friday that would allow lawful possession of guns on the public-right-of ways of university campuses. The 33-24 House vote follows Senate approval of the bill after it was amended to prohibit allowing guns inside campus buildings. Supporters of the bill assert that the constitutional right to [...]
Three Kenyan officials made an initial appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday and were notified of the charges pending against them , stemming from violence surrounding the December 2007 Kenyan elections . The charges against the men under the Rome Statute of the ICC include rape, murder, forcible deportation and persecution. The [...]
Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square on Friday to demand the prosecution of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak , his family, and members of his regime. The protests reveal Egyptians’ growing frustration with the pace at which the current military council is pursuing the punishment of the regime’s political corruption . Predominantly [...]
The UN announced Friday that investigators would enter Libya next week to begin looking into alleged human rights abuses by both rebels and the armed forces of leader Muammar Gaddafi . The inquiry into the conditions in Libya had been approved by a unanimous vote of members of the UN Human Rights Council on February [...]
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 69-19 Thursday to approve a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, except in cases where the mother’s life is at risk or she faces serious injury. The bill is based on evidence suggesting that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks and would require [...]
Bosnian war crimes victims on Thursday submitted evidence to the Prosecutors Office for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) accusing three former members of the Serbian Supreme Council of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian civil war . Former Yugoslav presidents Zoran Lilic and Dobrica Cosic and the former president of Montenegro Momir Bulatovic have been [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Luke Milligan of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law says the debate over warrantless GPS surveillance has been distracted by form and hyperbole, and that because this constitutional question is open, judges will take a pragmatic approach… For years the public has debated the Fourth Amendment implications of warrantless GPS [...]
