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Uganda rebel leader asks UN humanitarian chief for help lifting ICC warrants
Joseph Kony , leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, asked UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland Sunday to work with the International Criminal Court in lifting arrest warrants issued against Kony and several other top LRA officia (More) |
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UN human rights chief calls for disarming of Darfur militias
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour warned on Friday that continued movements by armed militias in the western region of Darfur will lead to more atrocities against ethnic African civilians. Arbour cited the attacks of October 29 (More) |
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Make cluster bombs illegal
Thomas Nash : "The increasing evidence of humanitarian harm from cluster munitions used during the recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the latest example of a consistent pattern of civilian suffering documented over the last 40 years (More) |
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Bush signs sanctions bills targeting North Korea, Sudan
President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region . The Nor (More) |
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The real criminals of Darfur
Suliman Giddo [President and CEO, Darfur Peace & Development]: "The tragic war and atrocities committed against the defenseless civilians in Darfur have been escalating since the partial agreement (Darfur Peace Agreement) was signed in May 2 (More) |
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Uganda LRA rebels renew threat of violence unless ICC pulls arrest warrants
Leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Monday repeated their call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to lift international arrest warrants against five top LRA leaders, and threatened to continue their violent resista (More) |
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UN rights chief calls for independent probe into Darfur attacks
Militia attacks in Sudan's Darfur region may have killed hundreds of people in August, many more than previously thought, according to a report issued Monday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour . Arbour also urged the S (More) |
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Sudan UN envoy claims many reports of rights violations in Darfur fabricated
Sudan Ambassador to the UN Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem on Friday disputed the latest report from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN Security Council on ongoing violations of human rights in country's Darfur region, claiming that many of (More) |
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Annan urges global action on human rights, rule of law as UN session opens
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday urged global action to combat three challenges facing humanity - human rights and the rule of law, security, and development - as the UN General Assembly opened its 61st session . In his speech [PDF text; re (More) |
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Annan urges UN rights council to address Darfur crisis
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur crisis and not focus exclus (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.
