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UN Security Council considers resolution to shift Taylor war crimes trial
Britain has circulated a draft resolution to fellow UN Security Council members that would permit the pending war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to be moved from Sierra Leone to The Hague (More) |
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Sweden to audit ICTY detention facility following Milosevic death
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] announced Friday that the Swedish government has accepted its invitation to conduct an audit of the Scheveningen detention unit outside of (More) |
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Taylor awaits war crimes trial under close UN guard
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from M (More) |
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Sierra Leone court seeks move of Taylor trial to Hague: Dutch foreign ministry
The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that the Special Court for Sierra Leone has asked the country to host the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] in The Hague. A spo (More) |
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Ex-Liberia president taken into UN custody, delivered to war crimes court
United Nations officials and armed peacekeepers took former Liberian President Charles Taylor into custody Wednesday in Monrovia after he was transported to Liberia following his capture by Nigerian officials in an attempt to flee the country. T (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Charles Taylor captured by Nigeria in escape bid
Fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor , who disappeared from his villa in the south of Nigeria where he had been living in exile since 2003, has been recaptured, according to a Nigerian police spokesman. The Liberian ex-president was reported (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Wanted war crimes suspect Taylor is missing: Nigeria
The BBC is reporting a statement by the Nigerian government that wanted war crimes suspect Charles Taylor , the former Liberian president indicted by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) who it said it would turn over to Liberian aut (More) |
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Nigeria says location of war crimes indictee Taylor unknown
A spokesman in Nigeria for former Liberian president Charles Taylor said Monday that his whereabouts are unknown, after Nigeria indicated over the weekend that Liberia could take Taylor into custody to stand trial for war crimes charges . Taylor i (More) |
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Sierra Leone war crimes court calls for Nigeria to detain Taylor immediately
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Sunday called on the Nigerian government to immediately detain former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor so that he does not disappear before being handed over to the Libe (More) |
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Charles Taylor transfer statement [Nigeria Government]
Statement by the Federal Government of Nigeria - Former President Charles Taylor to be Transferred to the Custody of the Government of Liberia, March 25, 2006. Text:On March 5th, 2006, a formal request was sent to President Olusegun Obasanjo by Presi (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.
