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Yemen president declares state of emergency
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared a state of emergency throughout the country on Friday. The state of emergency will last 30 days and gives security forces greater powers to maintain order and also includes a ban on citizens carrying ar (More) |
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UN warns Ivory Coast shelling may be war crime
The UN peacekeeping operation (UNOCI) in the Ivory Coast [BBC country profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday denounced the shelling of a market in the capital Abidjan which killed 25 to 30 civilians and injured scores more, calling it a possibl (More) |
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Decision 88: Balance of Power under the Iraq Constitution
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that even though Decision 88 may be troubling, Iraqi Constitutional Law is far from settled and that competing authorities must now recalibrate their eff (More) |
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Libya officials could face prosecution for civilian attacks: ICC
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo warned Libyan government officials on Friday that war crimes prosecution could result for any indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Benghazi. Last week, the UN was called (More) |
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Top DOD lawyer urges civilian trials for Guantanamo detainees
General Counsel for the US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday urged Congress to allow civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees, in addition to military commissions. At a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee , General Counsel (More) |
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Rights group urges Slovenia to protect Roma migrant communities
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday released a report [report, PDF; press release] documenting discrimination and human rights violations against Roma migrants in Slovenia and urging the Slovenian government to protect Roma communities. The re (More) |
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UN rights chief urges independent probe into Ivory Coast violence
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an independent investigation into post-election violence in the Ivory Coast on Monday as part of a report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) . The report indicated tha (More) |
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Uzbekistan government closes local HRW office
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the Uzbekistan government has ordered the closure of the advocacy group's Uzbek office. HRW learned from the Uzbekistan Supreme Court on March 10 that, after maintaining a presence in the country for (More) |
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Guatemalans file class action suit over US medical experiments
Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit on Monday with the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that they had been the subject of non-consensual human medical experimentation by the US Public Health Service (PHS) . The su (More) |
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HRW urges end to torture, military trials of citizens in Egypt
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to end torture, investigate all cases of abuse against peaceful demonstrators and stop prosecuting civilians before military tribunals. HRW went on to de (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.
