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Mladic receives month extension to review charges
Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive] made his first appearance Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , contesting the charges while simultaneously asking for more time to review them. C (More) |
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Turkmenistan adopts new law regulating presidential elections
Turkmenistan adopted a new law on Thursday for regulating presidential elections that changes the qualifications potential candidates must satisfy. The law says that an individual must be either backed by a political party or collect at least 50,00 (More) |
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Obama administration: Indiana ban on funds for abortion services violates federal law
The Obama administration took a stand Wednesday against a controversial Indiana law that prevents health care providers with abortion services from receiving Medicaid funds. Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (More) |
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HRW: Rwanda community genocide courts fail to provide justice
Rwandan gacaca courts [official website; BBC backgrounder] have carried out flawed trials for crimes committed during the country's 1994 genocide [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (More) |
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UN Libya commission says government forces have committed war crimes
A three-person commission for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed to investigate violence in Libya published a report Wednesday saying that government forces have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes under orders from Libyan (More) |
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Syria president grants amnesty for political prisoners
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad granted amnesty to political prisoners Tuesday including all members of the previously banned Muslim Brotherhood (MB) [party website; JURIST news archive], according to a presidential decree published in Syrian sta (More) |
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Spain court charges Salvadoran ex-military officials with 1989 'Jesuit Massacre'
Spain's National Court on Monday indicted 20 Salvadorans for their roles in the killings of eight people in November 1989. The group is composed of ex-military officials and even a former defense minister. A notorious episode of El Salvador's 12-yea (More) |
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UN rights expert confirms authenticity of Sri Lanka war crimes video
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns on Monday urged the UN Human Rights Council to conduct further investigations into possible Sri Lankan war crimes after reconfirming the legitimacy of a video of Liberation Tigers of T (More) |
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Google responds to PayPal trade secrets lawsuit
Google on Friday responded to allegations of misappropriating trade secrets made in a lawsuit filed by PayPal , arguing that it had done nothing illegal. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the Superior Court of California following the unveiling o (More) |
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UN rights expert calls for reform of Tunisia anti-terrorism law
UN human rights expert Martin Scheinin called on the Transitional Government of Tunisia Thursday to reform the counter-terrorism law to comply with international human rights law. Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-te (More) |
Organization of American States established
On April 30, 1948, the Organization of American States (OAS) was established in Bogota, Colombia with the signing of the Charter of the Organization of American States at the Ninth International Conference of American States.
