Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the government of Burundi to hold accountable those responsible for human rights violations during the country's 16-year armed conflict. HRW released the statement on the fifth anniversary of the Gatumba Massacre , in which more than 150 Congolese refugees were killed by members of the rebel National Liberation [...]
Christopher Boucek : "Early this week Human Rights Watch released a new report on internal security in Saudi Arabia. The report is very fair and makes many good points, especially about the numbers of individuals held in continued detention and regarding the judicial process for security suspects. Despite recent research, there remains much that we [...]
The Council of the European Union on Thursday announced sanctions against members of the Myanmar judiciary responsible for the verdict against opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi . The latest sanctions are in addition to a number of sanctions already in place against Myanmar. According to the press release from the 27 member states: [...]
Former US president William Jefferson Clinton addressed a capacity crowd late Thursday night at a progressive convention held by Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since leaving office, Clinton has become known for his charitable and humanitarian work , and on Thursday he discussed the evolution of "communitarian solutions" to world problems, devoting a large portion [...]
Israeli soldiers killed 11 white flag-waving Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead , which left more than 1,000 civilians and combatants dead in December 2008 and January 2009, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Thursday. According to the report, the unarmed victims were waving white flags to indicate they were [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Archbishop Agostino Marchetto of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People says in light of recent Italian legislation on immigrants that while states have the right to control their borders, they must also consider justice and the universal common good…. The Italian Parliament recently passed [...]
Federal and state officials toured a prison in rural Michigan Thursday in anticipation that it could eventually hold inmates currently detained at Guantanamo Bay . Officials have not yet decided whether the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) will one day house some of the 229 Guantanamo detainees. Michigan officials are also considering using the SMF [...]
Awzar Thi : "The verdict handed down against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her co-accused in Burma this week surprised no one. The trial was throughout political, not legal in character. The only real question has been what, if anything, anyone else will do about it. A chorus of angry statements from across the [...]
Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP) will support Article 6 treason charges against former president Pervez Musharraf , according to a Thursday Daily Times report. Although it is part of the ruling coalition government of President Asif Ali Zardari , ANP Vice President Haji Adeel said that the decision to propose charges against the former military [...]
UN and Cambodian officials on Wednesday announced the establishment of an independent counselor to oversee anti-corruption efforts at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The parties mutually agreed to appoint Cambodian Auditor General Uth Chhorn to the position. According to a joint statement by Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the [...]
