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UN human rights chief gives final address, criticizes ongoing discrimination
The UN's new Universal Periodic Review has made great strides in protecting human rights but still has far to go, departing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said in her last address [text; recorded video] to the UN Human Rig (More) |
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US holds terror suspects on prison ships: UK rights group
The US has held terror detainees on roving prison ships in an effort to hide them from media scrutiny and legal watchdogs, UK prison rights group Reprieve alleged Monday. According to Reprieve, it is suspected that the USS Bataan, the USS Peleliu (More) |
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Pentagon dismisses judge in Khadr military commission trial
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Thursday dismissed the military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive]. No explanation was given for the dismissal o (More) |
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US pressure felt at Dublin cluster munitions conference
Bonnie Docherty [Researcher, Human Rights Watch]: "Negotiations for a new convention banning cluster munitions are coming to a close, and perhaps the biggest remaining obstacle to achieving a strong treaty is a country not even present, the Unit (More) |
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Egypt's extension of emergency law means continued rights violations
Bill Van Esveld [Arthur Helton Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch]: "The Egyptian government has extended for two more years Law 162 of 1958 that authorizes prolonged detention without charge and severe limitations (More) |
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Same-Sex Marriage/Same-Sex Family
JURIST Guest Columnist Douglas NeJaime of UCLA School of Law says that the California same-sex marriage ruling is not merely about the right to marry the person one loves, but it is also about accommodating the demographic reality of lesbians and gay (More) |
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Ethiopia high court sentences former dictator Mengistu to death in absentia
Mengistu Haile Mariam [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence on char (More) |
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Memorial Day Memo: Honor Those Who Stood Up Against Torture
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that instead of excusing the Bush administration lawyers who enabled torture as a tool of American policy, we should press for their prosecution and celebrate the e (More) |
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Pakistan's Proposed Constitutional Amendment: An Exercise in Futility
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the proposed 18th Amendment to Pakistan's constitution limiting presidential power and punishing judges who might support military coups and constitutional subvers (More) |
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US Marines will not be charged in 2007 Afghan civilian shooting
A Marine Corps General Friday declined to press charges against two US Marines involved in a March 2007 incident in which 30 US Marines opened fire on civilians alongside a road in Nangahar province, Afghanistan, after a suicide bomber drove a vehi (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.
