JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas NeJaime of UCLA School of Law says that the California same-sex marriage ruling is not merely about the right to marry the person one loves, but it is also about accommodating the demographic reality of lesbians and gay men who commit to one another, raise children, and form families… The California [...]
Bangladesh has approved the creation of a so-called Truth and Accountability Commission which would allow corrupt officials and businessmen guilty of corruption to avoid jail by confessing and returning money taken, officials said Monday. The commission would operate under the country's new Voluntary Disclosure of Information Ordinance for five months, and those officials who come [...]
Pakistan officials who ignored a Supreme Court order and went along with President Pervez Musharaff's declaration of emergency rule in November 2007 will be punished regardless of their position, ousted Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry told a rally of lawyers and supporters in Faisalabad Sunday. Chaudhry told the group supporting his reinstatement that the [...]
Myanmar's draft constitution has been overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum after two rounds of voting with 92 percent of votes cast favoring the proposed charter and 98 percent of the country's 27 million eligible voters turning out, state television reported Monday. Voting concluded Saturday in the 47 townships hit hardest earlier this month by [...]
Aleksandra (Sasha) Williams, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev: Until yesterday any American voter disgruntled by the current presidential election process could find comfort in realizing that at least there are several candidates to pick from. For example, compared to Russian presidential elections, where the only plausible candidate was heavily endorsed by former President Vladimir [...]
Egyptian parliamentarians voted 305-103 Monday to extend the country's emergency laws for two more years at the behest of the government. The laws, which were first implemented after the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, permit the government and security services to arrest and detain anyone deemed a threat to state security, with detentions [...]
Security officials in Nepal banned protests and rallies near the royal palace and the residence of King Gyanendra on Monday, in anticipation of Wednesday's expected abolition of the Nepalese monarchy. Nepal's interim parliament voted in December 2007 to abolish the monarchy of as a part of a plan to bring members of the Communist Party [...]
Mengistu Haile Mariam , the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence on charges of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment, and illegal property seizure. Mengistu and 11 associates convicted in absentia in 2006 after a twelve-year trial. [...]
Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in recent attacks on Uganda villages. The attacks follow the apparent collapse of a peace deal with the rebels last month. [...]
Arrest warrant for former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in connection with war crimes and acts of genocide allegedly committed in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court, unsealed May 23, 2008. Read the full text of the sealed arrest warrant and the decision to unseal the arrest warrant . Reported in [...]
