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UN Mission to Darfur should be non-negotiable
Bec Hamilton [representing the Genocide Intervention Network]: "In April 2006, the UN General Assembly established the Human Rights Council to replace the much beleaguered Commission on Human Rights. In December 2006, the 47-member Council held (More) |
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Islamic charity asset freeze ruling [DC Circuit]
Islamic American Relief Agency v. Gonzalez, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Appeals court upholds asset freeze of Islamic charity linked to terror funders
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a freeze on the assets of the Islamic-American Relief Agency of Columbia, Missouri on the grounds that it was an affiliate of the Islamic African Relief Agency , a Sud (More) |
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Sudan to block UN rights team unless former Darfur critic replaced
A Sudanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday that Sudan will prevent a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation team from entering the country unless the UN agrees to replace team member Bertrand Ramcharan . As a former UN High Commission (More) |
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Sudan justice minister again rejects ICC jurisdiction in Darfur
Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi said Wednesday that the Sudanese government can do a better job prosecuting war crimes in Darfur than the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In an interview with AP, al-Mardi reiterated Sudan's p (More) |
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China, Human Rights and the Sudan
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that China's economic interests in the Sudan - especially as the consumer of over 60 percent of Sudan's existing oil (More) |
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Instrument of Justice: The ICC Prosecutor Reflects
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, says that since he began work in late 2003 his office has already faced and met several key challenges in bringing to justice person (More) |
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Representing Adel: The Case of Guantanamo Detainee 940
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Teesdale, an attorney in the Federal Public Defenders Office in Portland, Oregon representing Guantanamo detainee Adel Hamad, a Sudanese national transferred to Guantanamo in early 2003 from Pakistan, says that (More) |
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Sudan joins UN in peacekeepers sex crimes probe
The government of Southern Sudan, an autonomous region in Sudan , will join the United Nations in probing alleged sex crimes committed by international peacekeepers against at least twenty Sudanese children in Juba, according to a statement from t (More) |
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New UN Secretary-General promises to make Darfur top priority
New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that resolving the crisis in Darfur was "very high" on his agenda and would be one of his top priorities. Ban, whose tenure as secretary-general officially began Monday, said that he ha (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
