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Burmese military regime won't respect UN resolution; enforcement is key
Maureen Aung-Thwin [director, Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative of the Open Society Institute]: "Over the past two decades, various United Nations entities - the General Assembly, the Human Rights Commission (now Council) and the Security (More) |
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Mexico justice reform should yield positive results
Juan Enrique Vargas [Executive Director, Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA/JSCA)]: "Everything indicates that Mexico will soon implement a profound criminal justice reform that would share a great deal of the main characteristics of t (More) |
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Italy seeks extradition of 139 in South America 'Dirty War' probe
Italy Thursday requested the extradition of 139 South Americans accused of kidnapping and murdering 25 Italian dissidents during Argentina's Dirty War [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in the 1970s and 80s. The suspects, includi (More) |
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Congress, Torture and Romain Gary's 'Chien Blanc'
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that new revelations about top US lawmakers' encouragement and support of state-sponsored torture in the years immediately following 9/11 make them complicit in (More) |
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Hunt for Nazi war criminals extended to South America
The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced Tuesday that it will extend its campaign to capture and prosecute suspected Nazi war criminals to four South American countries. In a press conference in Buenos Aires, director Efraim Zuroff outlined the detail (More) |
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UK police watchdog recommends policy review after 2005 subway shooting
The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Thursday published a report [PDF text; press release] on its investigation into the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes [advocacy website; BBC profile] in a London Tube station (More) |
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Uruguay Senate votes to decriminalize abortion
The Uruguayan Senate passed a bill Tuesday that partially decriminalizes abortion , but the proposal may not have the support needed to override the veto promised by Uruguyan President Tabare Vazquez . According to the draft law, a mother may termin (More) |
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London police found guilty in subway shooting trial
A London jury Thursday found that the Metropolitan Police violated laws relating to health and public safety when it shot and killed Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes [advocacy website; BBC profile] in a London Tube station in 2005, believing him (More) |
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Travel Advisory: War Criminals Beware, Justice Ahead
JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's quic (More) |
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UK, Chile seeking to expand Antarctic claims ahead of treaty deadline
Chile staked a claim to a portion of Antarctica with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) Monday after the United Kingdom made a similar claim to Antarctic land last week in the face of a May 2009 deadline. The Commissio (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
