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Soldier challenges India army ban on HIV-positive personnel
An HIV-positive soldier has challenged his upcoming dismissal from the Indian Army, the Supreme Court announced Friday. A Human Rights Law Network lawyer who is representing the soldier argued that the policy barring HIV-positive personnel from m (More) |
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UN rights chief criticizes Zimbabwe parties for rights abuses in election lead-up
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] Thursday sharply criticized Zimbabwean political groups for violence surrounding the country's ongoing presidential elections and said that mediation ef (More) |
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The Yoo and Addington Hearings: A Citizen's Right to Know NOW
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that in the face of disconcertedly-vague and incomplete recollections by Cheney chief of staff David Addington and former DOJ lawyer John Yoo, other officials who w (More) |
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Canada court orders release of Khadr classified information
A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Wednesday that the government must release evidence to Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] that could assist in his defense. The decision followed last month's Suprem (More) |
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Thousands died while in India police custody: rights group
India's National Human Rights Commission should create a special department to investigate deaths in police custody, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) said in a Wednesday report [PDF text; press release]. The report found that over 7,0 (More) |
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New Zealand Parliament signs record-breaking Maori land settlement
The New Zealand government and several Maori groups signed a deed of settlement Wednesday worth nearly NZ $196 million to resolve certain indigenous claims concerning land taken by British settlers in the 19th century. The deed of settlement agreeme (More) |
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Spain should extradite ex-Nazi officers for war crimes trial: rights group
Rights group Equipo Nizkor has petitioned Spain's National Court [press release, in Spanish; Human Rights Blog backgrounder] to extradite and try four former Nazi officers for alleged war crimes committed during WWII, a group lawyer said Tuesda (More) |
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Congo ex-militia leader trial can proceed fairly: ICC Chief Prosecutor petition
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a petition Monday asking the court not to consider releasing suspected war criminal Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; BBC profile]. The petition also seeks leave from the court to (More) |
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Israel Supreme Court denies Schalit family bid to keep Gaza crossings closed
The Supreme Court of Israel Monday denied a request to suspend the opening of border crossings between the country and the Palestinian Gaza Strip . The appeal was made by the father of Sgt. Gilad Schalit , an Israeli soldier held prisoner by Hamas (More) |
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Special US terrorism courts would threaten Constitution: report
Special national security courts to try terrorism suspects are "unnecessary" and "dangerous to traditional constitutional protections," according to a report [text, PDF; advocacy press release] issued Monday by the Constitution P (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.
