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Compensation and Immunity: Germany v. Italy at the ICJ
JURIST Guest Columnist and German human rights lawyer Stefan Kirchner, a member of the American Society of International Law and the Faculty of Law at Georg-August-University in Gottingen, says that new litigation between Germany and Italy in the In (More) |
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China court sentences democracy advocate to six-year prison term
A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced democracy advocate Wang Rongqing to six years in jail on charges of subverting state power. The 65-year-old activist, who has pressed for democracy since the 1970s, was tried in Hangzhou City Intermediate Peop (More) |
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Amnesty International's criticism of Israeli action in Gaza distorts the law of war
Marc D. Stern [Acting Co-Executive Director/General Counsel, American Jewish Congress]: "Amnesty International reads the law of war as if it was a law banning war. In evaluating Amnesty's criticisms of Israel's actions in Gaza, one needs (More) |
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Federal judge allows habeas petitions to proceed until military commissions referral
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday granted the government's motion to hold in abeyance the habeas corpus petitions of two Guantanamo Bay detainees, but only if and when the charges against the pair are r (More) |
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Canada military charges soldier with murder of Afghan citizen
The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) on Friday charged Captain Robert Semrau with second-degree murder in the killing of an Afghan citizen. Semrau is specifically charged under the National Defense Act with shooting, with t (More) |
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Federal judge denies release to Yemeni and Tunisian Guantanamo detainees
Judge Richard Leon for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US government could continue to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees Hisham Sliti and Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi . Both men had filed habeas corpus petiti (More) |
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Compensation arrangements in China milk crisis do not ensure improved product safety
Bill Marler [Managing Partner, Marler Clark LLP, PS]: "According to the latest news reports, the 22 companies implicated in the Chinese powdered milk crisis are likely to pay 1.1 billion yuan ($160 million) in compensation to the families of the (More) |
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Federal court rules against North Korea for 1968 abuse of US soldiers
Judge Henry Kennedy for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ruled in favor of three former US soldiers suing North Korea for alleged mistreatment they suffered after the country seized their ship in 1968. Accordi (More) |
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Zimbabwe court delays ruling on release of rights activist
A Zimbabwean court on Monday delayed ruling on whether leading human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko and eight other activists charged with plotting to overthrow the government should be released pending trial. Mukoko, the head of the Zimbabwe Pe (More) |
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UK court rules suspects may be transferred to Iraq custody
A panel of the UK High Court of Justice ruled Friday that Iraqis Faisal Attiyah Nassar al-Saadoon and Khalaf Hussain Mufdhi, suspected in the 2003 deaths of two British soldiers , may be transferred to Iraqi custody to face trial. Lawyers for the (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.
