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Myanmar violence continues in northern Kachin state: HRW
Violence and rights abuses continue in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. HRW claims that a significant number of civilians are subject to abuses due to the conflict between Myanmar's armed forces and th (More) |
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Syria opposition groups have tortured government supporters: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] published an open letter on Tuesday to leaders of a movement opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , alleging that members of the opposition movement have tortured, kidnapped and (More) |
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Pakistan lawmakers call on US to stop CIA drone attacks
The Pakistani parliamentary national security committee on Tuesday urged the US to stop the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attacks . The relationship between the two countries has suffered since a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 (More) |
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Guatemala must still seek to solve human rights issues: UN rights chief
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated on Thursday that Guatemalan government authorities remain willing to solve human rights issues in the country but nonetheless have failed to comply with the 1996 Peace Accords which ended t (More) |
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UN human rights chief calls for fair Guinea-Bissau presidential election
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the people of Guinea-Bissau Friday to ensure that the country's upcoming presidential election is free and fair and warned that any violence during the election would be a violation of human (More) |
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Sri Lanka government threatens peace with minority group: rights group
The Sri Lankan government is threatening peace with the minority Tamils in the Northern Province, the International Crisis Group reported Friday. The report states that the Sinhala majority is encroaching on Tamil land, and the government maintain (More) |
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Revisiting the Regulation of Radiation in Food After Fukushima
JURIST Guest Columnist Volha Samasiuk is a LL.M. Candidate from the University of Arkansas School of Law, and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. She analyzes how the FDA currently protects the public (More) |
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UN joins regional experts in urging countries to stop reprisals against rights defenders
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Wednesday joined special rapporteurs from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in urging govern (More) |
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ICC prosecutor to seek maximum sentence for Congo military leader
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that he would seek the maximum sentence for recently convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . Lubanga was found guilty (More) |
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Human Rights and Respecting Personal Freedoms in Iraq
JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Iraq's handling of the violence perpetrated against an unpopular group of people may ultimately determine the type of state Iraq will evolve into over the cou (More) |
Acts of Union creates Great Britain
On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act.
Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
