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ETHIOPIA: Agriculture and the WTO
JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, interned in Addis Ababa last summer...Will membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) help Ethiopia's agricultural sector? Indeed, would the agricultural sector of any least-developed country (LD (More) |
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Italian right to die case shows prevalence of utilitarian view of life in the West
Ken Connor [Chairman, Center for a Just Society]: "Eluana Englaro's tragic death by starvation and dehydration is yet another example of how the West is embracing a utilitarian view of life that is undermining human dignity. The standard of (More) |
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Tibet courts convict 76 involved in March demonstrations
Tibetan courts have convicted 76 people involved in the March 2008 Lhasa riots [Free Tibet backgrounder; JURIST news archive], according to official remarks on Tuesday by vice-president of the Tibet regional People's Congress Nyima Cering. The (More) |
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State Department defends silence during UN rights reviews
US State Department spokesperson Robert Wood on Tuesday defended the silence of the US delegates during the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of potential rights abuses, saying that the US is not actively participating (More) |
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South Korea appeals court affirms landmark right-to-die ruling
A South Korea appellate court on Tuesday upheld a landmark lower court ruling authorizing removal of life-support from a comatose woman. Tuesday's decision by the Seoul High Court affirmed the December ruling of the Seoul Western District Court (More) |
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Italy legislature to hold right-to-die vote despite comatose woman's death
Italian lawmakers have said they still plan to vote [Corriere della Sera report] on legislation that would make it a crime to remove a feeding tube from a comatose patient, despite the death Monday of Eluana Englaro , the woman whose case gave rise (More) |
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China defends rights record in review by UN council
The Chinese delegation to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) defended China's human rights record Monday while presenting a report in compliance with the UNHRC's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Ambassador Li Baodong said that Ch (More) |
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Italy woman in right-to-die controversy dies
Eluana Englaro , an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die controversy in the country, died Monday, shortly after the Italian Senate began debate on legislation that would make it a crime to remove a feeding tube from a comatose patient. E (More) |
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Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surroundin (More) |
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Guatemalan reparations program for civil war victims' families about more than compensation
Amanda Martin [Director, Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA]: "In April 2005, the United Nations Human Rights Commission adopted a set of international principles on reparations for victims of human rights violations. These include restitutio (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.
