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JURIST Guest Columnist Donna Arzt, Director of the Center for Global Law and Practice at Syracuse University College of Law, says that when the incoming president of Liberia takes office in January she should ask Nigeria to extradite former Liberian...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has warned that the Nepalese government and Maoist rebels must take "steps towards lasting peace" in order to avoid "grave violations of human rights...

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the phenomenon of hyper-technical...

Iraqi human rights officials are investigating reports that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah. According to Acting Human Rights...

Pentagon officials admitted Tuesday that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah, but remained adamant that it...

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 United States military has again denied several allegations that forces used white phosphorus against Iraqi civilians during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah. The military did, however, confirm...

Italian state TV RAI Tuesday aired a documentary accusing the United States of using the chemical white phosphorus against both insurgents and civilians during a military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah...

Three Bahrainis and a Saudi national were released Saturday from detention at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay . None of the released detainees was ever charged with a crime under US law. According to a Bahraini...

The Nigerian Federal High Court has ruled that two Nigerians who were tortured and mutilated in Sierra Leone can challenge Nigeria's decision to grant asylum to former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Taylor was granted asylum in Nigeria...