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UN diplomats still seeking country to take Taylor after trial
In the wake of a request from the UN-supported Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) that the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] be transferred for security reasons, members of the UN Security Coun (More) |
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Taylor lawyer fights change of venue for war crimes trial
Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the former president of Liberia indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , will challenge a prosecutor's motion that seeks to move his trial from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to The Hagu (More) |
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Taylor selects UK lawyer as provisional counsel in war crimes trial
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] has selected British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan to serve as his provisional counsel in proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Special Court Principal Defender (More) |
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Diplomats search for countries willing to take Taylor after trial
The international tribunal that is set to hear the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] hit a wall on Tuesday as court administrators struggled to find a country willing to grant Taylor asylum if h (More) |
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Taylor assembles defense team for Sierra Leone war crimes trial
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] met with several potential defense lawyers after he pleaded not guilty Monday to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the UN-backed Special Court for Sie (More) |
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Trying Charles Taylor: Justice Here, There, Anywhere?
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 the debate over where to try ex-Liberian president Cha (More) |
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Charles Taylor war crimes charges summary [SCSL]
Special Court for Sierra Leone, summary of war crimes charges against ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor at his first appearance before the SCSL in Freetown, April 3, 2006.Text:Charles Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was indicted o (More) |
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Taylor pleads not guilty to war crimes in Sierra Leone
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges in his first appearance before the Special Court for Sierra Leone Monday. Taylor initially refused to recognize the jurisdiction of (More) |
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Advisor claims Taylor was arrested by same Nigerians who helped him flee
A spiritual advisor for former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] has said that Nigerian security forces led Taylor to the border of Cameroon to facilitate his escape, but then returned to arrest him at gunpoint. N (More) |
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Taylor set for first war crimes court appearance as lawyer appeals for defense funds
Former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor is set to make his first appearance in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) before Justice Richard Lussick at Freetown on Monday, where he is expected to plead not guilty to c (More) |
US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate
On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.
The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.
