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SOFA Discards Contractors and the Rule of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Tara Lee, a former Navy JAG now a partner at DLA Piper (US) LLP, says that having a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq that abdicates the jurisdictional reach of the United States over contractors (not just security contracto (More) |
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UN rights council adopts resolution condemning Congo abuses
The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution [text, DOC; materials] Monday condemning human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the close of a special session on renewed violence in the country. The Council singled out ab (More) |
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Myanmar journalists sentenced to prison for possessing UN rights report
A Myanmar court on Friday sentenced two reporters to seven years imprisonment for allegedly undercutting the country's military junta by possessing reports deemed seditious. Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a UN (More) |
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Civil rights complaint filed over subprime credit ratings
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has filed [complaint, PDF; press release] a federal civil rights complaint with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO) c (More) |
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UN rights chief says accountability necessary for Congo peace
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged accountability for abuses as a prerequisite to quelling six years of fighting and restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive; ICC materials]. Spe (More) |
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Mexico senate approves right-to-die law
The Mexican Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would amend the General Law of Health to allow terminally ill patients to refuse medical treatment. The bill passed with 84 votes in favor and only one abstention. Under the new law, a patient w (More) |
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Israel top court ruling on targeted killings disregarded by military: report
Members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed Palestinian terror suspects in defiance of a 2006 Israeli Supreme Court ruling [JURIST report; MJIL analysis] on targeted killings, according to Haaretz Wednesday. The 2006 ruling set up guidel (More) |
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Sixth Circuit allows clergy sex abuse class action against Vatican to proceed
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court decision denying in part defendant's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging that officials of the Roman Catholic Church failed to warn the public of sexu (More) |
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Federal judge refuses to stop Khadr military commission trial
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied [opinion, PDF; order, PDF] a motion by Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] seeking to have the military commission tria (More) |
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Red Army Faction leader's release shows terrorists should be treated as simple criminals
Richard Huffman [creator of Baader-Meinhoff.com and author of The Gun Speaks]: "Christian Klar, leader of the notorious Red Army Faction, the leftist terrorist group that waged war on Germany from 1970 through the early 1990s, was released from (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.
