The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday reversed and remanded a lower court ruling, reviving two lawsuits brought by Nigerian families against Pfizer . The consolidated lawsuits allege that Pfizer violated international law when it administered an experimental antibiotic to Nigerian children without the consent or knowledge of their patients. The [...]
JURIST Staffer Necia Hobbes, Pitt Law '11, volunteered in Chiang Rai before starting graduate school: In the United States, citizenship is granted to those born within US borders or to US citizen parents, and can be obtained through naturalization. The Kingdom of Thailand, however, places more severe restrictions on obtaining citizenship, effectively limiting human rights [...]
Four human rights groups sent a letter Friday urging US President Barack Obama to permit them full access to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to assess the conditions and report on possible recommendations for changing US detention policies. The four groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International (AI), and [...]
Jennifer Turner : "President Obama's recent executive orders to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp within a year and to reverse many of the Bush Administration's most egregious detention and torture policies were a huge first step in restoring America's standing in the world. With his swift actions, Obama sent a message to the world [...]
Rabi Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, January 30, 2009 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Nondisplacement of qualified workers under service contracts, US President Barack Obama, January 30, 2009, . Read the full text of the executive order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Economy in government contracting, US President Barack Obama, January 30, 2009 . Read the full text of the executive order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Notification of employee rights under federal labor law, US President Barack Obama, January 30, 2009, . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US President Barack Obama Friday issued three executive orders favoring organized labor and departing from the pro-employer labor policies of the previous Bush administration. Notification of employee rights under federal labor law requires employers working under government contracts to clearly notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act . The order says [...]
The government of Myanmar must stop systematically persecuting the Rohingya Muslim minority , and neighboring states should offer assistance to refugees, according to an open letter sent Friday by Amnesty International (AI) . In a letter to the governments of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, AI called for Myanmar to end persection against [...]
