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UK reaches settlement with Kenya torture victims
June 6, 2013 by Peter Snyder
The UK government on Wednesday reached a settlement agreement with thousands of Kenyans tortured by British colonial forces during the 1950s. Negotiations began last October after the Queen's Bench Division on the High Court of England and Wales ruled that three elderly Kenyans could sue the.... [more]
UK judge upholds request to withhold evidence in Russian spy death investigation
May 19, 2013 by Theresa Donovan
A senior judge for the Judiciary of England and Wales on Friday partially upheld a request by British Foreign Secretary William Hague to withhold certain information from the investigation into the 2006 death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko was a member of the Federal Security.... [more]
US Funds Still Supporting Honduras Death Squads [op-ed]
April 22, 2013 by Dan DeRight
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of the Western New England School of Law says that the US must restrict aid to the Honduran government, so long as human rights abuses continue ...Honduras is plagued by the world's highest homicide rate. This has been widely reported for the past two years,.... [more]
UK Parliament backs same-sex marriage
February 6, 2013 by Maureen Cosgrove
The UK Parliament voted 400-175 on Tuesday in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in England and Wales. The legislation, which was introduced late last month, would extend the application of the Marriage Act of 1949 to same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. The bill also contains.... [more]
UK government introduces same-sex marriage bill
January 25, 2013 by Max Slater
The British government introduced legislation on Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales. The bill would extend the UK's Marriage Act of 1949 to apply to same-sex couples as well as opposite-sex couples. The bill also contains exceptions for clergy members who do not wish to.... [more]
Rhode Island House approves same-sex marriage bill
January 25, 2013 by Sarah Posner
The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The bill passed by a vote of 51-19 after a lengthy debate on the House floor. Rhode Island is currently the only state in New England that has not legalized same-sex marriage,.... [more]
UK urged to amend laws impacting right to assembly
January 24, 2013 by Matthew Pomy
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai on Wednesday urged the UK to review certain legal and policing policies that negatively affect the right to peaceably assemble. The statement came at the end of a 10-day visit to the UK where Kiai.... [more]
UK court refuses to hear drone strike case
December 21, 2012 by Julie Deisher
The High Court of England and Wales has refused to allow a legal challenge to the possible role of the UK's spy agencies in aiding CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. Noor Khan, the plaintiff, lives in Miranshah, North Waziristan Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan..... [more]
DOJ charges two former Swiss bank traders with manipulating interest rates
December 19, 2012 by Max Slater
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal charges Wednesday against two former UBS traders for allegedly helping UBS illegally manipulate foreign interest rates. The DOJ accused former traders Tom Hayes and Roger Darin of assisting in a conspiracy to manipulate the London Interbank.... [more]
Same-Sex Marriage To Be 'Illegal' in the Church of England and Church in Wales [comment]
December 18, 2012 by Stephanie Kogut
JURIST Columnist Paul Johnson, Anniversary Reader at the University of York, argues that the effect of an on-going human rights debate in the British Isles and the European Court of Human Rights may have a detrimental effect on the same-sex marriage debate in the UK...In its formal response to the.... [more]
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