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Mexico human rights panel failing to curb abuses: HRW
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) is not doing enough to promote remedies and reforms needed to end abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report [text; press release] released Wednesday. After examining the commission's (More) |
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'Net neutrality' bill introduced in US House
US Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday that he has introduced a bill [press release; Markey summary, PDF] in Congress aimed at guaranteeing unfettered access to the Internet and limiting the ability of Internet providers to restrict users' (More) |
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Children as Terrorists: Wrong to Train, Wrong to Charge
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone and a signatory of the recent Paris Declaration on child soldiers, says that not only is it morally and le (More) |
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UK Law Lords weigh Iraq war inquiry bid
A nine-member judicial committee of the UK House of Lords heard testimony Monday in the case of two mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq who are seeking to force the British government to hold a public inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war i (More) |
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First Khmer Rouge victim testifies in ECCC hearing for former second-in-command
A Cambodian genocide survivor Friday testified against former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea at a pre-trial hearing before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive], marking the first time th (More) |
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Khmer Rouge second-in-command appeals ECCC pre-trial detention
Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea asked the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] to release him from provisional detention Thursday and argued that his prior con (More) |
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Myanmar still detaining rights activists without fair trial: UN envoy
Myanmar continues to arrest and detain human rights activists, denying them fair trials in accordance with international principles, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro [official profile; J (More) |
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Uzbekistan pardons rights activist
Uzbekistan authorities have granted a pardon to a journalist and Human Rights Watch (HRW) translator sentenced to prison, according to Tuesday reports. Umida Niyazova was sentenced to seven years after an Uzbek court convicted her last May of il (More) |
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US military commission hears jurisdiction arguments in Khadr case
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] Monday argued that the US military commission responsible for trying him lacks jurisdiction over the case , saying that Khadr did not commit a war crime by allegedly (More) |
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ECCC hearing for Khmer Rouge second-in-command delayed over lawyer dispute
Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea made his first public appearance before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday, though the court quickly adjourned the pre-trial hearing. T (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.
