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ISRAEL: Judicial Appointments, Standing and Political Questions
Jonathan Cohen, Pitt Law '12, studied in Jerusalem as part of a program hosted by the Touro College Law Center and sponsored by Pitt's Center for International Legal Education. He writes about the differences between Israel and the United States in t (More) |
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Europe court finds no right to same-sex marriage
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled [judgment; press release] 4-3 that the European Convention on Human Rights does not mandate that member states recognize same-sex marriages . The applicants, an Austrian same-sex couple, (More) |
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Asia rights groups urge Thailand to end state of emergency
A group of 55 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on Tuesday urged the Thai government to end its state of emergency [statement; JURIST news archive]. The statement comes after the UN Human Rights Council unanimously elected Thai Ambassador Sihas (More) |
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India high court orders government to explain action on honor killings
The Supreme Court of India on Monday ordered the central government and seven state governments to explain the steps they have taken to reduce honor killings . The order comes in response to a petition filed by Shakti Vahini , a non-governmental h (More) |
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Diamond monitoring body urged to suspend Zimbabwe over rights abuse allegations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called for the removal of Zimbabwe [report materials; press release] from the Kimberley Process (KP) , the global organization dedicated to suppressing trade in so-called "conflict diamonds." The report, (More) |
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Kyrgyzstan president issues 'shoot to kill' order as ethnic violence continues
Kyrgyzstan interim President Roza Otunbayeva [Telegraph profile] on Sunday issued shoot to kill orders to the nation's military as violence continued against ethnic Uzbeks. The orders were issued after the reservists were activated and sent to (More) |
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Kazakhstan president declines to sign bill extending powers
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website; BBC profile] on Thursday announced during a local TV broadcast that he will not sign a controversial law that would grant him several presidential powers for life, even if he stepped down from (More) |
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Zimbabwe rights activist arrested over conflict diamond information
Zimbabwean human rights activist Farai Maguwu was arrested Thursday for allegedly supplying false information about Zimbabwe's controversial diamond mining practices to the international diamond control body the Kimberley Process (KP) . Maguwu, (More) |
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Europe governments agree to detain ICC convicts
The governments of Finland, Belgium, and Denmark agreed Tuesday to detain those convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . ICC President Judge Sang-Hyun Song described the agreement as "an important element in the overall credibili (More) |
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US warns against ICC adopting state aggression as crime
US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp expressed concern Tuesday over the potential adoption of a state aggression law by the International Criminal Court (ICC) , claiming that it could undermine the integrity of the ICC. The st (More) |
Georgia became first US state to ban lynching
On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison.
The statute was not particularly effective - read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.
