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Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the (More) |
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China rejects UN panel report on torture
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Sunday called [press release, in Chinese; autotranslation] a report released last week by the UN Committee Against Torture prejudiced and false. The Committee's report had expressed "deep conc (More) |
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UN torture panel criticizes China human rights record
The UN Committee Against Torture on Friday expressed deep concern over continued allegations that China authorities continued the routine and widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment of suspects to extract confessions. In its Observations (More) |
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Federal judge orders five Guantanamo detainees released
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainees. In the first ruling on detainees' rights since the June Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush [op (More) |
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ICC to resume Lubanga trial after agreement to release evidence
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday lifted a suspension [press release; AFP report] imposed on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; BBC profile] after prosecutors in the case agreed to share as-yet (More) |
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Obama should create independent commission to investigate detainee abuse
Joanne Mariner [Director, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch]: "In their sobering report, Guantanamo and Its Aftermath , researchers at the University of California, Berkeley - working in partnership with the Center for C (More) |
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UN rights experts concerned about Italy treatment of migrants, asylum seekers
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Monday after an official visit to Italy that it has "significant human rights concerns" about the facilities where Italy holds irregular migrants and asylum seekers detained on suspicion o (More) |
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US admits more juveniles held at Guantanamo
A spokesperson for the Pentagon acknowledged on Sunday while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the US held 12 juveniles at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The announcement came in response to a study released last we (More) |
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Kenya claims progress on abuse issues in response to UN torture report
The Kenyan government Friday said in response to a report by the UN Committee on Torture focusing on post-election violence that occurred in the country in late 2007 and early 2008 that it was taking initiatives to eliminate torture and other inhu (More) |
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Rights groups file lawsuit against ex-El Salvador president in Spain
The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and the Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos de España (APDHE) filed suit [complaint; CJA press release] Thursday in Spain's National Court against Alfredo Cristiani , the former president of (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.
