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Canada Supreme Court rules for Khadr in government documents access appeal
The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled Friday that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] has a constitutional right to see confidential documents compiled by Canadian officials following interviews wit (More) |
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DOD to verify number of juvenile enemy combatants detained
The US will re-check its detention records to verify the accuracy of a report [text, DOC; JURIST report] filed last week by US officials with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the number of minors it has detained in Iraq, Afgh (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds challenge to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' military policy
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the US military cannot dismiss a soldier on the basis of sexual orientation alone, departing from the reasoning used to defeat similar cases in the past . The court's holding m (More) |
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UN rights council elections favor 4 states criticized by rights groups
The 47-member UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held elections for 15 open seats Wednesday, with four seats going to countries that have been harshly criticized by human rights groups. In a report to the UNHRC, Freedom House [advocacy website; pres (More) |
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Defense lawyers for 9/11 detainees seek to delay arraignments
Military defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay detainees allegedly behind the Sept. 11 attacks are attempting to delay their clients' arraignments, currently scheduled for June 5. They allege the US government has interfered with the def (More) |
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UN rights rapporteur visiting US on intolerance fact-finding mission
Doudou Diene [OAS profile; OHCHR backgrounder], the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance, is visiting the US this week to gather first-hand information on issues of race re (More) |
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Report from Guantanamo: Mohammed Jawad is another teen growing up in detention
Sahr MuhammedAlly [Senior Associate, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First]: "On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad - an Afghan national who was 16 or 17 years old at the time of his arrest in Kabul in December 2002 - made his first public ap (More) |
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US military court-martialing civilian contractor Ali while DOJ slumbers
Kevin Lanigan [Director, Human Rights First, Law and Security Program]: "The U.S. military in Iraq is quickly moving toward its first court-martial of a civilian contractor since the Vietnam war. The case holds some promise of beginning to reig (More) |
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US military detained over 2000 minors as illegal enemy combatants since 2002: report
Approximately 2,500 minors under the age of 18 have been detained as illegal enemy combatants by the US military at facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a US government report [text, DOC; ACLU press release] m (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee transfers put US in tight spot
Ashley Deeks [International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies]: "Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo d (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.
