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Supreme Court takes two First Amendment cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday agreed to hear two cases involving the First Amendment Monday, including Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (07-665) [docket; cert. petition, PDF], in which the Court will consider whet (More) |
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UN council deplores Myanmar rights abuses
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday condemning the military government of Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] for ongoing systematic violations of human rights and people's fundamental freedoms. The European Unio (More) |
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UK troops violated human rights of Basra Iraq detainees: Defense Ministry
UK Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne admitted Thursday that British soldiers had violated the human rights of several Iraqi detainees in Basra in 2003, saying that the Ministry of Defence would specifically admit to substantive breaches of (More) |
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UN council passes resolution urging Sudan to address human rights abuses
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Thursday urging Sudan to address human rights violations and to prosecute perpetrators of rights abuses. The resolution, introduced by Egypt, also acknowledged that Sudan had instituted some measures (More) |
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Nigeria commission launches corruption investigation of former president
The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) made good on earlier promises to investigate high-ranking governmental officials on Wednesday by formally launching an investigation into former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo . An (More) |
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HRW urges close UN scrutiny of Philippines extrajudicial killings claims
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the United Nations to scrutinize the Philippine government's response to accusations that the Philippines military has engaged in extrajudicial killings of left-wing activists since 2001. HRW's pr (More) |
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Mahmudiya rape-murder case against ex-US soldier belongs in federal court: prosecutors
Former US Army Pfc. Steven D. Green should be prosecuted in civilian court under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act , and not under the military system of justice as urged by the defense, federal prosecutors argued in a motion filed lat (More) |
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No Refuge from Habeas: Protecting US Citizens Held by US Forces
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel at the Constitution Project, amicus in the US Supreme Court in support of habeas petitioners Mohammed Munaf and Shawqi Omar in Munaf v. Geren and Geren v. Omar, says that America (More) |
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Zimbabwe president accused of election fraud plan
Zimbabwean opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Sunday accused President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of plotting to commit election fraud by printing millions of surplus ballot papers in advance of the March (More) |
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DC gun ban case: plaintiff's attorney on the Supreme Court oral arguments
Alan Gura [attorney, Gura & Possessky, PLLC, lead counsel for plaintiffs in Parker v. District of Columbia, on appeal as District of Columbia v. Heller]: "As advocates, our role is to respond to the actual questions posed by the Justices, in (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.
