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US expects UN human rights reform this year
The US expects a major overhaul of the discredited UN Commission on Human Rights to occur this year, but will insist upon an actual improvement of the current model rather than adherence to artificial deadlines, the State Department's lead nego (More) |
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Annan chides Kosovo for delays in meeting international standards
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that Kosovo [UN Interim Administration website, JURIST news archive] has not moved quickly enough to implement international standards of human rights, democraticization, ethnic tolerance and law enfor (More) |
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Judge throws out challenge to Army 'stop-loss' policy
A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought in 2004 by two US Army National Guard soldiers that claimed the Army fraudulently induced them to enlist by failing to inform them that they could be forced to remain on active duty indefinitely. (More) |
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New Vioxx trial to start in Texas
Jury selection is slated to begin Tuesday in Rio Grande City, Texas, in the latest wrongful death case involving the painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news archive]. The family of Leonel Garza is suing Merck Pharmaceut (More) |
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East Timor president delivers rights violations report to UN
In an attempt to help resolve the conflict surrounding Indonesia's annexation of East Timor , East Timor President Xanana Gusmao presented a report to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday detailing alleged widespread atrocities committed (More) |
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Hollow Ritual: The Alito Confirmation Hearings
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito were a distressingly hollow ritual that reflected poorly on the nominee, the Senat (More) |
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US Army general asserts right to silence in Abu Ghraib trial
US Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller has invoked his right not to incriminate himself by refusing to answer questions in two courts-martial against soldiers accused of using dogs as an intimidation tactic at the US-operated Abu Ghraib prison facility (More) |
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Canadian Gitmo detainee seeks change of lawyers as military hearings get underway
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr on Wednesday asked the judge presiding over Khadr's military trial to delay proceedings so that Khadr could secure counsel with more trial experience. Khadr, 19, faces charge (More) |
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Alito Day 3: Drama over CAP
JURIST Guest Columnist Sherrilyn Ifill of the University of Maryland School of Law says that on the third day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito his student membership in a conservative Princeton organization took center st (More) |
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Uzbek rights activist on trial for aiding terrorism during Andijan uprising
Saidjahan Zainabiddinov, an Uzbek human rights activist who witnessed an violent uprising in Andijan last May has been put on trial on charges of undermining the constitutional system and assisting terrorism for aiding journalists covering the upri (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.
