The Mexican Senate Thursday approved a bill authorizing a variety of judicial reforms providing for public and oral trials, guaranteeing the presumption of innocence and allowing for the use of...
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Mexico's lower house of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies , on Tuesday passed a bill on Tuesday authorizing a variety of judicial reforms . With a vote...
Guatemala panel to declassify documents on civil war-era rights abuses
Guatemala on Monday announced plans to declassify documents describing human rights abuses committed by its military during the country's 1960-1996 civil war . Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has created a panel...
The Mexican military has committed grave human rights abuses, including the torture, rape and murder of civilians, according to a report from the Mexican National Human Rights Commission submitted to the Mexican National Congress. According...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Monday chided the Canadian government for not doing enough to maintain Canada's reputation in the global community as an advocate for human rights . Arbour, a former...
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment
JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...
Argentina high court orders protection of malnourished indigenous group
The Supreme Court of Argentina has ordered the government to provide the indigenous people of the Chaco region with basic necessities while it investigates claims that their land has been illegally sold to...
The UN General Assembly Thursday adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a non-binding treaty outlining the global human rights of approximately 370 million indigenous people and bans discrimination against them....
Eric Linge, Pitt Law '09, files from Mumbai:Outbursts of communal violence are common in India. There are Maoist insurgents in the jungles. There are 23 different separatist militias in the eastern hill states. And as I reported in prior weeks,...
Canada PM proposes new tribunal to settle native land claims
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled a series of reforms Tuesday designed to address the backlog of claims by aboriginal tribes over land seized by the Canadian government, saying a system would be created to...
