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Iraq War: Mission Accomplished or Mission Impossible?
JURIST Guest Columnist Dominic Hoerauf, Columbia Law School Class of 2012, is a Staff Editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He argues that the Obama administration's decision to withdraw troops from Iraq by December 31 is misguided as the g (More) |
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Afghanistan civilians struggle to exercise human rights: HRW
The Afghan government has failed to ensure and protect human rights since the Taliban government ended ten years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Sunday. Afghanistan created a transitional government and announced intentions to hold election (More) |
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Canada citizen removed from UN terrorist list
Sudanese-born Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik was removed from the UN Security Council Al Qaeda Sanctions List (1267 List) [text, PDF; materials] on Thursday. Abdelrazik was added to the list while being held in Sudan in 2006 based on suspe (More) |
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Continued Dysfunction Marks Guantanamo Bureaucracy
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says there is a systematic dysfunction within the bureaucracy of the Guantánamo Bay detention (More) |
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US Army soldier convicted of murdering Afghanistan civilians
A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a "kill team" in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of the four defe (More) |
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7 Pakistanis indicted in Bhutto assassination
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday indicted seven people in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive]. A senior officer and the former police chief of Rawalpindi, where the assass (More) |
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UN expert calls for gender equality in criminal justice systems
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Gabriela Knaul called Friday for integration of a gender perspective into countries' criminal justice systems. The annual report "addresses the need to consider and integrate a g (More) |
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UN rights expert urges states to prevent violence against women
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Rashida Manjoo appeared in front of the UN General Assembly Monday to urge states to fulfill their obligations to prevent violence against women. Presenting her report on the pervasive, widespread (More) |
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Afghanistan prisoners facing abuse, torture: UN report
Prisoners in some Afghan-run detention facilities have been beaten and tortured, according to a report [text, PDF; executive summary] released Monday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) . The prisoners interviewed for the study had b (More) |
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A Decade Later: An Assessment of US Policy Since 9/11
JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Cutler of Siena College says that President Obama did not keep his promise to make the country's counterterrorism policy more consistent with constitutional principles and international law, and that it remains to be se (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
