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Egypt authorities accused of torturing, sexually abusing teenage protesters
Geneva-based pan-Arab rights group Alkarama claimed in an open statement to the UN published Friday that Egyptian authorities have been complicit in the torture and sexual abuse of 52 teenage detainees. The rights group brought the cases of the de (More) |
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The Immigration Court is a Legal Paradox
JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey Hoffman, of the University of Houston Law Center, discusses the problems that the immigration court creates for unaccompanied alien children...The law is no stranger to paradoxes, contradictions and strange coincidence (More) |
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AI: Mexico government tolerates torture by police and military forces
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday criticized the Mexican government for its failure to adequately investigate allegations of torture . According to the report, Mexican safeguards intended to prevent military and police forces from using tortur (More) |
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Rights group accuses Islamic State of ethnic cleansing
Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website) on Tuesday accused the extremist group, Islamic State (IS) [BBC Backgrounder; JURIST news archive], of carrying out ethnic cleansing "on a historic scale" in Northern Iraq. The report, entitled "Ethnic (More) |
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UN: Concern growing for children in Iraq, Syria
The United Nations top advocate for children affected by war on Monday expressed concern about the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) [BBC Backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in Syria and Iraq and the increase in violations against children there. (More) |
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Haiti's Fragile Democracy
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of Western New England University School of Law discusses what appears to be the politically motivated charges against former president Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti ... The latest chapter in a long series of p (More) |
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History of Guantanamo Bay
Cuban nationalists began pressing for independence from Spain in the mid-nineteenth century. Cuban guerrilla fighters initiated frequent skirmishes with the Spanish military between 1868 and 1878. Revolutionary activities picked up in the 1890s and S (More) |
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AI report: Nepal government should deliver justice for disappearances
Amnesty International (AI) called on Nepalese authorities to bring justice to the individuals responsible for the disappearance of the "Dhanusha Five" during the armed conflict in Nepal between 1996-2006. The report notes more than 1,300 people a (More) |
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Texas judge rules education budget cuts unconstitutional
A judge for a Travis County Civil Court in Texas ruled Thursday that the Texas Legislature failed to meet its constitutional duty to provide for Texas public schools because the school finance system is structured, operated, and funded so that it (More) |
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UN expert requests access to monitor rights violations in Gaza
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Makarim Wibisono [Jerusalem Post report], on Tuesday formally requested [press release; UN News Centre reported] access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory to (More) |
Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants
On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially-restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.
