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US military judge orders disclosure of US-Canada correspondence on Khadr
A US military judge ruled Thursday that some correspondence between the US and Canadian government officials regarding Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] must be turned over to Khadr's defense team. Prosecutors a (More) |
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Canada judge rules Afghan detainees have no rights under Charter
Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada ruled [judgment, PDF; summary, PDF] Wednesday that the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms do not extend to Afghan detainees captured by Canadian soldiers. Amnesty International Ca (More) |
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Former Liberia militia commander testifies at Taylor war crimes trial
A former militia commander testified Wednesday before the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], describing scare tactics used by Taylor to intimidate t (More) |
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Afghan detainee rights ruling [Canada FC]
Amnesty International Canada and British Columbia Civil Liberties Association v. Chief of the Defence Staff for the Canadian Forces, et al., Federal Court of Canada, March 12, 2008 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper (More) |
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Indonesia rights panel investigating Suharto-era abuses
A member of the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia said Tuesday that the commission has launched an investigation into human rights abuses committed during the regime of former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto [BBC profile; JUR (More) |
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State Department deplores rights records of North Korea, Iran, in annual reports
The US State Department Tuesday heavily criticized the right records of North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan Tuesday in its annual report on worldwide human rights observance. In the introduction (More) |
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Nigeria police routinely violate human rights: UN torture rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak accused Nigeria's national police of widespread human rights violations Monday, telling the UN Human Rights Council that Nigerian police routinely tortured suspects during investigations. Nowak al (More) |
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The Torture of Sami Al Arian
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa - now on hunger strike and (More) |
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Democrats, rights groups criticize Bush veto of waterboarding ban
Democratic members of both the US House and Senate have criticized President George Bush's Saturday veto of a bill that would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using waterboarding and other interrogation techniques n (More) |
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UN panel urges US to address racial disparities in criminal justice system
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday concluded its review [report, PDF; press release] of US compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) . The commit (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.
