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Do Funeral Protests Invade Mourners' Privacy?
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Wells of the University of Missouri School of Law says that to restrict peaceful protests aimed at disseminating a message simply because we find that message offensive is inconsistent with common sense notions of pri (More) |
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UK announces public inquiry into 2003 death of Iraqi detainee
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced Wednesday that it will conduct a public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa [BBC report; JURIST news archive], an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British military custody in 2003. Mousa's death (More) |
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US military judge refuses to set Khadr trial date pending Guantanamo records release
US military judge Col. Peter Brownback again refused to set a trial date for Canadian-born Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, threatening to suspend military commission proceedings against the Guantanamo (More) |
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Prosecute the Lawyers Too
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says in this excerpt from her recent testimony to the US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties that not only the high (More) |
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Japan activists protest against calls for constitutional reform
Thousands of activists protested in Japan on Sunday in opposition to efforts to amend the country's pacifist constitution [text; JURIST news archive]. Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, drafted during the American occupation of Japan after (More) |
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Report from Guantanamo: military commissions continue to fail Hamdan
Deborah Colson [Senior Associate, Human Rights First]: " 'America tells the whole world that it has freedom and justice. I do not see that...You do not give us the least bit of humanity…Give me a just court†(More) |
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ICTY appeals judgment in Hadzihasanovic & Kubura case striking
Aleksandar Momirov [Lecturer, Erasmus University of Rotterdam]: "If the recent acquittal of Ramush Haradinaj by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) had all the characteristics of a judicial e (More) |
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Upcoming Myanmar constitutional referendum 'sham': HRW
A scheduled May 10 referendum on a new constitution proposed by Myanmar's ruling junta is a "sham" designed to legitimize military rule, according to a report [text; press release] released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW c (More) |
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US military judge rules Khadr not a child soldier
A US military judge Wednesday rejected arguments that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for his trial (More) |
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Australia to amend laws to end same-sex discrimination
The Australian government will introduce legislation to amend over 100 federal laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples , Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland said Wednesday. The legislation, which will be introduced during (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.
