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UN envoy: conflicts in 2015 have taken 'huge toll' on children
Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict released her annual report on Monday on the situation of children in conflict zones from December 2014 to 2015. She reports that children worldwide cont (More) |
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HRW: Ukraine hostilities have damaged hundreds of schools
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that hostilities in eastern Ukraine have damaged or destroyed hundreds of schools, many of which were being used for military purposes. According to a detailed investigative report , government forces and Russia (More) |
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Lithuania begins war crime trials for 65 former Soviet military officials
Lithuania began war crime trials for 65 former Soviet military officials on Wednesday. The officials are accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1991 crackdown by the Soviet Union during Lithuania's independence movement. The action (More) |
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Ukraine to take Russia to International Court of Justice
A Ukrainian official said Tuesday that the nation plans to sue Russia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on claims of financing terrorism. The claims surround the Russian annexation of Donbas and Crimea. Pavlo Petrenko, the Justice Minister (More) |
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Europe rights court rules Russia authorities violated protester's rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday in favor of a man convicted of jaywalking during a 2012 protest in Moscow. Yevgeniy Frumkin was attending a demonstration in Bolotnaya Square to challenge the reelection of Vladimir Putin to (More) |
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Unrivaled Cruelty: The Horror of Incendiary Weapons and Need for Stronger Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Bonnie Docherty of Human Rights Watch discusses the need to strengthen existing international law on incendiary weapons ... Incendiary weapons inflict almost unrivaled cruelty on their victims. Photos taken aft (More) |
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Russia officials charge Khodorkovsky with murder
Russia's Investigative Committee on Friday, charged former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky with multiple murders and attempted murders during the 1990s according to the Interfax agency. Khodorkovsky is accused of being the mastermind behind the ki (More) |
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UN: serious rights concerns persist in Ukraine
Although hostilities have significantly declined in Ukraine, "serious human rights concerns persist," the UN said Wednesday in a new report . The UN attributes this decrease in hostility to the August 26 ceasefire , as certain weapons were withdrawn (More) |
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France May Invoke NATO Article 5 In Wake of Paris ISIS Attacks
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law argues that France has the legal right to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty following the Paris ISIS attacks...Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire aft (More) |
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Ukraine parliament recognizes 1944 Crimea Tatar deportations as genocide
The Ukrainian Parliament approved a resolution Thursday that recognizes the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide. On May 18, 1944, under orders from Josef Stalin, more than 180,000 indigenous people were deported from Crimea on th (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
