The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States , against Mexico, alleging that the Mexican government failed to adequately respond to the 1974 disappearance of guerrilla sympathizer Rosendo Radilla during Mexico's so-called "dirty war" [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that five years after the invasion of Iraq, with talk of a new war with Iran circulating in Washington, the United States would do well to reflect on the grave and unfortunate consequences of flouting international law… On this fifth anniversary of the [...]
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday announced a new pilot program under the federal No Child Left Behind program that is aimed at narrowing statewide education reform to focus on schools most in need of "dramatic intervention": One thing we know for sure is that we must take dramatic action to improve our lowest-performing [...]
A US Marine sergeant was charged Tuesday with one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting of a detained Iraqi insurgent during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah . Sgt. Ryan Weemer, who was a corporal at the time of the battle , [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 18, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al., v. The Regents of the University of Michigan, et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, March 18, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Parliament of Kenya Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a power-sharing agreement between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga . The Kenya Accord and Reconciliation Act 2008 , intended to end violence sparked by the country's disputed 2007 presidential election , names Odinga as the nation's first Prime Minister. The agreement has [...]
Kevin Lanigan : "Last week I observed three military commissions hearings in Guantánamo: the arraignments of Afghani national Mohammed Jawad and Saudi national Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, and a discovery motions hearing in the case of Canadian national Omar Ahmed Khadr. (Khadr's case, along with that of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, are the two [...]
Nepalese police arrested 50 protesters Tuesday after roughly 200 Tibetan exiles demonstrated near the country's UN headquarters in Katmandu, demanding a UN investigation into China's recent crackdown against pro-Tibet protests . The protesters, who were arrested after refusing to leave the site, began a hunger strike early Tuesday and were later joined by monks, forming [...]
Judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after his declaration of emergency rule last November can only be reinstated if the newly elected members of the National Assembly of Pakistan strike down constitutional changes Musharraf introduced following the dismissals, Pakistani Attorney General Malik Qayyum said Tuesday. Qayyum said that reinstating the judges would require a [...]
