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Attorney General's frank conversation of race requires end to politically correct bullying tactics
Jennifer Gratz [Director of Research, American Civil Rights Institute]: "Attorney General Holder recently called the American people a "nation of cowards" with respect to the issue of race. For the most part, I agree with him but in, (More) |
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GUANTANAMO: Challenge and Change Require EU Response
Guest commentator Mike McNerney, Washington College of Law American University JD '09, is a former US Air Force officer who recently visited the US base at Guantanamo Bay...European Union (EU) nations have been intensely debating whether to accep (More) |
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Myanmar grants amnesty to political prisoners
Myanmar's military government has granted amnesty to 23 political detainees and more than 6,300 other prisoners, Thailand-based human rights group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said Sunday. Among those freed were members (More) |
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Ninth Circuit rules ban on video game sales to minors unconstitutional
A three judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday unanimously upheld a US District Court ruling [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] that a California law banning sales of video games to minors is unconstitutional because i (More) |
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Politkovskaya murder suspect alleges Russian prosecutors fabricated evidence
A lawyer for one of the men accused in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya [BBC obituary, JURIST news archive] alleged in his closing statements Tuesday that the prosecution's main pieces of evidence are flawed and have been fab (More) |
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Omar Khadr: Release, Repatriation, and Remedies
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that Canada and the US are duty-bound to act immediately to ensure that Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr is released and repatriated, his (More) |
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Italy begins dismantling Roma camps after rape sparks ethnic tensions
Italian authorities Monday began dismantling illegal immigrant camps around Rome heavily populated by members of the Roma minority ("gypsies") following the alleged weekend rape of a 14-year old girl by East European immigrants which led (More) |
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China making limited progress on human rights: UN panel
A report issued Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commended China's developmental progress, while urging the nation to share best practices in poverty reduction and to improve the national standard of living. The report follows (More) |
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Englaro right to die case features Vatican attempt to halt progress on vital civil liberty
Derek Humphry [President, Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization]: "The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy. The law is being used as a poli (More) |
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Federal judge rejects jurisdiction over Guantanamo force-feeding case
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the matte (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
