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Obama administration presses Congress for stronger chemical regulations
The Obama administration on Tuesday called for Congress to enact legislation to tighten chemical and toxin regulations. In a speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson s (More) |
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UN Gaza mission presents findings to rights council
Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Richard Goldstone formally presented the group's findings to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Tuesday. In his opening remarks , Goldstone defended the report [text, PDF; JURIST repor (More) |
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Honduras interim government to reinstate suspended constitutional rights
The head of the Honduran interim government Roberto Micheletti said Monday that he may lift restrictions on constitutional rights imposed Sunday by the end of the week. The de facto government passed an executive decree late on Sunday night suspend (More) |
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G-20 EXTRA ~ Resistance Project Demonstration Dispersed
Christian Ehret, Pitt Law '11, observed a G-20 Resistance Project protest held by self-proclaimed anarchists in Pittsburgh on Thursday...I ventured down to the G-20 Resistance gathering in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday (More) |
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The ICC and the Middle East: A Needed Relationship
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order f (More) |
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G-20 EXTRA ~ People's Summit Addresses World Poverty, Local Economy
Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, attended an "alternative" G-20 event on world hunger and economic decline which was hosted by the People's Summit on Pittsburgh's North Side...This week I was given the opportunity to attend several G (More) |
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UK Liberal Democrats demand independent torture investigation
British Liberal Democrats voted Monday to support a motion [text; press release] calling for a public investigation into the UK's potential complicity in torture. The motion, passed at the party's conference , calls for:A full and independe (More) |
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BELGIUM: Language Laws and Regional Divisions
Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, spent her summer conducting research at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, Belgium...In early spring, I told a close friend in Pittsburgh that I would be spending the summer in Belgium. "It's g (More) |
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Israel rejects UN call for independent inquiry into Gaza war crimes allegations
Israeli officials on Wednesday rejected a call by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict to establish an independent inquiry into accusations of war crimes during December and January's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip [BBC back (More) |
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UN report finds evidence both Israel and Palestine committed Gaza war crimes
Both Israel and Palestine committed war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity during December and January's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza strip, according to a report [text, PDF; press release] released Tuesday by the UN Fact Find (More) |
First execution by guillotine in France
On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person beheaded by the guillotine in France.
Learn more about the history of the guillotine.
