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UN report: girls facing violence for seeking education
Girls have been attacked in at least 70 countries for seeking education, according to a new UN report [text, PDF; press release] released Monday. The report states, "he educational rights of girls and women are often targeted due to the fact that th (More) |
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Arizona sheriff deputies to receive body cameras
Self-defense products company TASER International Inc. on Friday announced that Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will be receiving an order of cameras which will be worn by officers to record their actions in the field. Under the sales agreement, T (More) |
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Colorado lawmakers decline to pass assisted suicide bill
Colorado lawmakers on Friday declined to pass a bill that would have permitted medically assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients. If Colorado had enacted this law, it would have required two physicians to confirm that a patient was terminally (More) |
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Seselj's Provisional Release: Hate Speech, International Criminal Procedure and Transitional Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory S. Gordon of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, discusses the decision of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia to grant provisional release to Vojislav Seselj and its repercussions on intern (More) |
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UN rights chief calls for change in education to prevent atrocities
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Thursday called for for a change in education practices and governmental activities in order to curtail the state of current worldwide atrocities. In a speech made to commemorate the s (More) |
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Haselwander v. McHugh: DC Circuit Restores Fairness to Its Review of the Boards for the Correction of Military Records
JURIST Guest Columnist Raymond J. Toney of the Law Offices of Raymond J. Toney discusses recent changes to the US military's records review process ...Since the 1989 decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Kreis v. (More) |
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Canada Supreme Court strikes down ban on medically assisted suicide
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday unanimously struck down the country's ban on medically assisted suicide. The court found the provision in Canada's Criminal Code that criminalized the aiding and abetting of suicide efforts unconstitutional u (More) |
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Supreme Court stays execution of Texas inmate
The US Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of Lester Leroy Bower, a Texas inmate who was convicted in 1984 of murdering four men in an airplane hangar. February 10 was his sixth scheduled execution date. Bower has maintained his innoce (More) |
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UN: Islamic State committing rights abuses against children in Iraq
Members of the Islamic State (IS) are abducting Iraqi children and engaging in serious human rights abuses, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reported Wednesday. Abuses reportedly entail the "systematic killing of children belonging to (More) |
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New York doctors, patients file assisted suicide lawsuit
A group of patients and doctors on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a New York court requesting a declaration that physician-assisted suicide is not illegal under New York state law. Though the state does have a law prohibiting assisted suicide, plaint (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
