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Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges sworn in at Cambodia royal palace
Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal [official task force website; timeline] were sworn in Monday (More) |
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African Union panel says Chad ex-president should be tried in Africa
An African Union panel recommended on Friday that former Chadian president Hissene Habre [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive], accused of committing torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, face trial in Africa instead of in Belgi (More) |
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UN rights council votes to review Israel rights record at every session
The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both Israel and the US as unfair. Islamic countries lobbied in favor of (More) |
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UN rights council passes declaration to protect indigenous peoples
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a document which asserts that indigenous peoples worldwide should have the right to restitution of land and resources taken from them. Bypassi (More) |
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Rape, Porn and Criminality: Political Truth on Trial
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the correlation between a newly-documented drastic decline in sexual violence in the United States and a major increase in social access to pornography - mo (More) |
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UN rights council endorses treaty banning enforced disappearances
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution endorsing the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , which would require signatories to refrain from engaging in forced disappeara (More) |
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Jordan should ban torture, end special courts: UN investigator
Jordan should criminalize torture and end the use of special courts that protect accused police and intelligence officials, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told a press conference following the conclusion of his two-day visit to Jord (More) |
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Rights coalition asks African Union to compel trial of former Chad president
The Campaign Against Impunity , a group of 300 African and international civil society bodies, has urged the African Union Assembly to call on Senegal to try former Chad President Hissene Habre [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive], Human Rights (More) |
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Losing the Moral High Ground: The US and the Rule of Law
As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day on July 4, JURIST Guest Columnists David Crane and Fred Bryant, former senior legal officials in the US Defense Department, say that the United States cannot win either the war in Iraq or the fight a (More) |
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Tokyo court rejects PM war shrine visit lawsuit
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an order compelling Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop visiting the Yasukuni war shrine , a shrine that honors all Japanese war dead, including war criminals. The lawsuit, (More) |
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