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UN rights council burdened by accountability problems: report
Many UN member states are failing to hold other countries accountable for human rights violations , according to a UN Watch report released Friday. The report, entitled "Mutual Praise Society," focused on meetings of the UN Human Rights (More) |
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Rights researcher denies receiving secret Afghanistan data from UK military officer
Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Rachael Reid responded [Guardian comment] Friday to media accusations that she received secret information from British officer Lt. Col. Owen McNally, arrested this week on suspicion of leaking secret informatio (More) |
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ICC prosecutor reviewing options for Gaza case against Israelis: report
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said that his office is considering arguments that the court may have jurisdiction over war crimes Israeli troops have allegedly committed in the Gaza Strip, (More) |
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Guatemala files criminal complaints for human rights violations during civil war
The director of Guatemala's National Compensation Program Cesar Davila announced Friday that the Guatemalan government [official website; JURIST news archive] has filed more than 3,000 criminal complaints for human rights violations allegedly co (More) |
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THAILAND: Legal Obstacles to Citizenship for Indigenous Groups
JURIST Staffer Necia Hobbes, Pitt Law '11, volunteered in Chiang Rai before starting graduate school:In the United States, citizenship is granted to those born within US borders or to US citizen parents, and can be obtained through naturalization (More) |
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Rights group urges Myanmar to end persecution of Muslim minority
The government of Myanmar must stop systematically persecuting the Rohingya Muslim minority , and neighboring states should offer assistance to refugees, according to an open letter sent Friday by Amnesty International (AI) . In a letter to the go (More) |
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Spain court to investigate Israeli role in 2002 Gaza bombing
A judge for the National Court of Spain ordered an investigation Thursday of former Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and six soldiers under his command for alleged crimes against humanity committed in a 2002 attack in the Gaza Strip. (More) |
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Lubanga war crimes trial resumes after child soldier witness recants testimony
The trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] resumed Thursday after the first witness to testify withdrew his testimony Wednesday, causing the inaugural war crimes trial of the International Crimin (More) |
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Illinois school prayer case features statute that is mere religious marketing device
Rob Sherman [Social activist, plaintiff in Sherman v. Township High School District 214]: "The real purpose of the Student Prayer Act was a "see, try and buy" marketing scam by Christian legislators. Christians already had the right to (More) |
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Congo ex-militia leader Lubanga pleads not guilty at first ICC war crimes trial
Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty on Monday in the historic first trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Lubanga, founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese , (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.
