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Former Guantanamo detainees petition US Supreme Court to hear rights appeal
British nationals and former Guantanamo Bay detainees Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal Al-Harith have petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit in which they seek religious rights and protection from torture for those sti (More) |
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US immigration authority abandons voluntary deportation program
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Friday abandoned a pilot program [fact sheet; press release] it created to allow certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home raids, arrest or (More) |
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UN panel urges Russia to comply with racial discrimination convention
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Monday called on Russia to take action against growing instances of ethnic violence and Neo-Nazi activity within its borders. CERD said that Chechens, Roma, and other ethnic an (More) |
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Sudan court gives death sentence to rebels convicted of Khartoum terrorist attack
A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced eight Darfur rebels to death, including the half brother of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim. Abdul Aziz Ashur and others were found guilty on charges related to a May rebel attack on t (More) |
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ICC prosecutor tactics criticized by rights groups
JURIST] The president of Human Rights Watch , mediation advisors, and other NGO leaders have recently begun to more openly criticize prosecutorial and other judgments [The Guardian report] made by International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor L (More) |
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UK libel law discourages free speech: UN rights committee
The United Nations Committee on Human Rights has criticized British libel laws for stifling freedom of speech, according to Thursday media reports. In a report issued after its 93rd session in Geneva, the Committee said restrictive laws may enco (More) |
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Fifth Circuit rules on jurors using Bible during sentencing deliberations
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus to convicted murder Khristian Oliver , who had argued that his Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights were violated when the jury took Bible passages int (More) |
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India peacekeeping troops accused of committing sex crimes in Congo
JURIST] The office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the organization has found significant evidence that Indian peacekeeping troops have committed sex-crimes while stationed with the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic (More) |
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ICC prosecutor condemns Sudan war crimes probe
Sudan is merely going through the motions with its planned probe into Darfur human rights violations, said International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in an interview with the Sudan Tribune on Monday. Moreno-Ocampo commented (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee files rights commission complaint against US
Guantanamo Bay detainee Djamel Ameziane Wednesday filed a complaint [DOC text; press release] against the US with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) [governing statute; official website], alleging that he had been tortured, given (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.
