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Philippines to sign UN Convention against Torture protocol
The Philippine government delegation to the United Nations in Geneva said Monday that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo [official website; BBC profile] will soon begin the process of signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Conv (More) |
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China arrests 9 monks for Tibet bombing
Nine Tibetan monks have been arrested by Chinese authorities in connection with the March bombing of a government building as part of recent protests against Chinese rule in Tibet . China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that the Buddhist (More) |
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UK court rules failure to equip troops properly may violate their rights
Sending British soldiers on patrol or into combat with inadequate equipment could be a violation of their human rights, the High Court of Justice ruled in London Friday. The British Ministry of Defence had argued that the Human Rights Act does no (More) |
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Top White House officials approved harsh interrogation methods: reports
US Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials approved controversial interrogation methods, including waterboarding , in secret meetings, AP reported Friday. An unnamed former senior intelligence official confirmed an earlier ABC (More) |
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UK rights record on terrorism, prisoners challenged as UN review process continues
Representatives from the 47 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Thursday criticized the human rights record of the United Kingdom [UNHRC materials; recorded video], including the government's treatment of terror suspects (More) |
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Israel bars UN Palestinian rights envoy after Holocaust comments
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday that it will not allow the new UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) envoy on Israeli human rights to enter either Israel or the Palestinian territories after he called current Israeli actions aga (More) |
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China detained over 900 Tibet pro-independence protesters: official
Police in China have detained 953 people, of which 403 have been formally arrested, in connection with protests against Chinese rule in Tibet last month, Chairman of the Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region Qiangba Puncog said Wednesday. Las (More) |
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UK Law Lords reject bid for inquiry into legality of Iraq war
The judicial members of the House of Lords making up Britain's highest court on Wednesday denied a request by two mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq for a public inquiry into the legality of UK's decision to go to war in Iraq . The mothers (More) |
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Senegal amends constitution to allow war crimes trial of former Chad dictator
The National Assembly of Senegal on Tuesday amended the Senegalese Constitution to give Senegalese courts jurisdiction over the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre [HRW materials; JURIST news archive], who is accused of crimes against h (More) |
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The Yoo Torture Memo: Break the Silence of the Lambs
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the recently released 2003 John Yoo memo on US military interrogation techniques opened up a path to torture and leaves a great number of persons potentially crimin (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.
