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Five killed protesting Muhammad cartoons in Afghanistan as furor goes global
At least five people protesting the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish and other European papers were killed in Afghanistan Monday when security forces and police opened fire on demonstrators as the cartoons furor setting (More) |
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Russia military prosecutor reports widespread abuse in armed forces
Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor on Monday told the Federation Council , the upper house of parliament, that approximately 6,000 people were abused by Russian military personnel last year and 2,600 soldiers were convicted of abusing other sold (More) |
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Reprimand for Iraqi Detainee Homicide: Is This Military Justice?
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the ostensibly-light sentence for Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr., the highest-ranking US soldier to face a court-m (More) |
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Russian military court convicts officer of conscript slavery in latest abuse case
A Russian military court has convicted a senior officer in the country's elite missile corps of modern-day slavery and contracting out conscripts under his command for personal gain. Deputy Commander Vladimir Kontonistov has been banned from ho (More) |
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New Human Rights Council under consideration at UN
UN ambassadors from Panama and South Africa Thursday circulated a draft compromise resolution in the UN General Assembly outlining provisions for a UN Human Rights Council to replace the current 53-member Commission on Human Rights . The draft pro (More) |
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Youngstown revisited: external threat no excuse for internal power grab
Michael J. Kelly : "President Truman used American involvement in the Korean War as justification for seizing privately owned U.S. steel mills when a labor strike threatened to cripple that industry and bring production to a halt - thereby threa (More) |
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Coretta Scott King
Benjamin G. Davis : "Thank you Coretta for all of your good works helping humanity progress in the United States and around the world. You were a person of action and gentleness. Martin and you did YOUR work - not his or hers. You have raised (More) |
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High Time for Justice: The US and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Craig Etcheson, author of After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide (2005) and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, says the time has come fo (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ MLK widow Coretta Scott King dies
Wire services are reporting that Coretta Scott King , wife of the late US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and a key figure in the civil rights movement herself, has died. She was 78, and had been hospitalized since August after suffering (More) |
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Legal news views wanted
Welcome to JURIST's Hotline, where you can publish your insights on legal news as it happens.We've designed this service to do two things: to give lawyers, law professors, policy experts, and people caught up in legal events a platform where (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
