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Pluralism and the Iraqi Constitution: Critical Issues For All of Us
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and the EU Jean Monnet Professor in Law at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, Lebanon, says that Iraq's constitutional response to pluralism may yet make it an e (More) |
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Witnesses tell Liberia truth commission of civil war abuses
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began hearing public testimony Tuesday, with several people testifying about the crimes and abuse that occurred during the country's 14-year civil war . One man testified that he was taken (More) |
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Russian human rights advocate Anna Politkovskaya murdered
Ali Khan : "The world will mourn today's brutal murder of Russian journalist and human rights advocate Anna Politkovaskay in Moscow. In writing my book, A Theory of International Terrorism (2006), I relied on Anna Politkovaskaya's report (More) |
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UN envoy urges ICC probe of possible Israel war crimes in Lebanon conflict
A UN Human Rights Council envoy on Thursday called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into whether Israel committed war crimes during the 34-day Middle East conflict . In a report, UN special rapporteur on food rights Jean Zi (More) |
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Why Guantanamo?
JURIST Guest Columnist Kermit Roosevelt of the University of Pennsylvania Law School says that the question of whether the US government can seize aliens and put them beyond the reach of law goes to the heart of who we are and what we want to become. (More) |
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UN rights council missed chance to publicly expose Uzbekistan massacre: HRW report
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday criticized the decision of the UN Human Rights Council to close access to its examination of last year's uprising in Andijan that resulted in the massacre of unarmed Uzbek civilians . HRW released a briefi (More) |
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US Army deserter surrenders despite belief Iraq war 'illegal'
A US soldier who deserted to Canada in 2005 rather than continue fighting in what he calls an "illegal" Iraq war turned himself in Tuesday near Fort Knox, Kentucky . Spc. Darrell Anderson, 24, received a Purple Heart for combat with the 1 (More) |
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Liberia truth commission starts gathering witness statements
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Tuesday began the long process of documenting personal statements on crimes and abuses committed during the country's 14-year civil war . Jerome Verdier , head of the commission which (More) |
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UN envoys finds Israel and Hezbollah both breached international humanitarian law
A group of four UN human rights envoys reported Tuesday that Israel and Hezbollah both broke international humanitarian law during the 34-day Middle East conflict . Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative on displaced people Walter Kaelin (More) |
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Disillusioned with Democracy: The Tale of the Thailand Coup
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Albritton of the University of Mississippi says the recent overthrow of Thailand's elected government by unconstitutional means reflects a disconcerting failure of mass democracy in the country in the face of opposit (More) |
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