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International humanitarian law violated in Gaza
Joe Stork [Program Director, Middle East & North Africa, Human Rights Watch]: "The conflict between Israel and Hamas-led forces in the Gaza Strip has taken a terrible toll among civilians. Palestinian rocket attacks that in late February kil (More) |
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Former Chile police officers convicted for Pinochet-era rights abuses
A Chilean court convicted 24 former Chilean police officers of human rights violations on Wednesday for their role in the 1973 murders of 30 leftist prisoners. A woman who survived the incident, which took place during the regime of former dictator (More) |
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Khadr military judge evidence disclosure ruling significant
Aisling Reidy [Senior Legal Advisor, Human Rights Watch]: "On March 13, the defense for Omar Khadr had some fairly basic objectives - to get the government to disclose evidence, such as notes relating to the interrogation of their client when he (More) |
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Immunity of Nigeria officials will ensure continued human rights abuses
Samuel Abiodun Adebowale [coordinator, Concerned Nigerians Worldwide, Spain chapter; journalist, African News in Switzerland]: "In Chicago (USA), a U.S. District Court admitted a claim to investigate the responsibility of a former Nigerian head (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee Khadr accuses US interrogators of threats, physical abuse
Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] said in an affidavit released Tuesday that US interrogators in Afghanistan threatened him with rape, physically abused him, and forced him to swear to false statements. The 63-i (More) |
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Afghanistan must do more to stop human rights abuses: UN official
Chief Human Rights Officer Norah Niland of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Tuesday called on the Afghan government to do more to protect human rights and see that human rights violators are brought to justice. Speaking at a pre (More) |
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Executing 9/11 suspects would make them martyrs: Mukasay
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile; JURIST news archive] told an audience in London Friday that he hopes those accused in the 9/11 attacks do not receive the death penalty if found guilty because it would make them martyrs. Mukas (More) |
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Giving up the Ghost: Detainees, Doctors and Torture
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, says that Amnesty International's new report into the rendition and torture of one-time &qu (More) |
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Myanmar opposition group urges citizens to vote down draft constitution
Myanmar opposition group 88 Generation Students [Asia Times backgrounder] urged Burmese voters Friday to reject the country's new draft constitution in an upcoming national referendum . The group said in a public statement that the new constitut (More) |
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Report from Guantanamo: prisoner calls prosecution unjust, refuses representation
Sahr MuhammedAlly [Senior Associate, Human Rights First]: "On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad , a twenty-three year old Afghan prisoner, announced to the military commission judge that he has "been brought here illegally." Jawad is accu (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.
