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Taylor war crimes prosecutor hails promised Nigerian handover to Liberia
The former UN Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone who signed the indictment of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor in 2003 Saturday hailed Nigeria's promise to hand over the former warlord , telling JURIST that "This (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Nigeria to hand over war crimes indictee Taylor to Liberia
The Nigerian government said Saturday that it would allow the transfer of ex-Liberia president and fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor to Liberian authorities. According to a statement: "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, (More) |
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Liberia president seeks decision from African leaders on Taylor trial
In an effort to bring closure to the contentious issue of the fate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , Liberia's new president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Tuesday called on African leaders to decide whether to place Taylor in the hands o (More) |
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Handing Over Charles Taylor: It's Time
JURIST Guest Columnist David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, now at Syracuse University College of Law, says it's time for Nigeria to hand over former Liberian president Charles Taylor for trial on war crimes (More) |
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Move to put ex-Liberia president Taylor on trial should serve as warning: UN prosecutor
The latest effort to put former Liberian President Charles Taylor [PBS profile; JURIST news archive] on trial for crimes against humanity at the Special Court for Sierra Leone should be seen as a warning to the "world's warlords that they (More) |
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Liberia seeks Nigerian handover of ex-president Taylor on war crimes charges
Liberia has formally asked the Nigerian government to transfer former Liberian President Charles Taylor [PBS profile; JURIST news archive] so that he can face war crimes charges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Liberia's transfer request (More) |
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Nigeria lawyers strike to protest government disregard of court judgments
Nigerian lawyers have begun a two-day boycott of the country's courts in protest at what they say is "failure of the government to comply with court orders and the violation of human rights." Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President L (More) |
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The Milosevic Trial Legacy: If Not Outcome, Hope
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that what is most important about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the wake of his sudden death in jail is not its lack of outcome, but rather the hope its example hold (More) |
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Liberia truth commission established to investigate human rights abuses
Liberian and UN officials on Monday inaugurated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights abuses during the country's war-torn rule from 1979-2003. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf presided over the swearing-in (More) |
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War Crimes and Charles Taylor: Tightening the Noose
JURIST Guest Columnist Donna Arzt, Director of the Center for Global Law and Practice at Syracuse University College of Law, says that when the incoming president of Liberia takes office in January she should ask Nigeria to extradite former Liberian (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.
