Australian opposition leader compares sedition proposal to North Korea, Cuba
Australia's Labor Party leader Kim Beazley said Thursday that the controversial sedition provisions set to be included in Australia's new anti-terror laws lower the country "to the standard of North Korea, Syria and Cuba." On...
JURIST Guest Columnist Devika Hovell of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks by US military commission highlights his transformation from an alleged perpetrator of...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. The humanitarian agency, which made a 10-day visit to the US...
Last-minute talks continued Sunday at the UN as an intergovernmental negotiating group struggled to finalize a text to be submitted to the UN's 2005 World Summit , scheduled to begin Wednesday. The group is working to...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ellen O'Connell of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the experienced British, newly challenged in the recent London bombings, have the right idea... The British have shown...
By a vote of 221-184 the US House of Representatives has passed the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 calling for broad reforms at the UN and allowing the US to withold up to 50 percent of...
Hyde UN reform bill would allow dissatisfied US to cut dues by 50%
Republican Congressman Henry Hyde , chair of the House International Relations Committee, introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives Tuesday calling for broad reforms to the UN. The UN Reform Act of 2005 alleges that...
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...
UN rights body approves Sudan resolution, rejects Cuba call for Gitmo probe
The UN Human Rights Commission Thursday passed a resolution condemning rights abuses in Sudan. The final text, supported by the US, the EU, other African nations and even Sudan itself, only passed after a compromise was reached...
Leading Friday's international brief, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced Friday that Cuba rejected the UN Human Rights Commission resolution calling on Cuba to allow a special envoy to visit...
