JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that as US federal courts begin to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to render justice to Guantanamo detainees whose legal process has been too long delayed, the Obama...
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ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Darfur rebel leaders
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday formally asked ICC judges to issue arrest warrants for the leaders of rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST news...
Refugee treaty obligations served through humanitarian aid: UN official
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Public Health Officer Heiko Hering said Wednesday that the large-scale anti-malaria effort recently launched by the United Nations Foundation is part of fulfilling the service obligations of the Convention and Protocol...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Croatia accusing Serbia of genocide...
A National Security Court: Restoring the Balance Between Security and Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that creation of a special US domestic court to try terrorism suspects need not be an exercise in "rights denial" but can in fact be a...
Iraqi SOFA Jurisdiction Over US Soldiers: A Matter of Necessity
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the American concession in the supposedly final version of the Status of Forces Agreement governing US troops in Iraq that would put US soldiers...
ICC chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Darfur rebel leaders
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday at a meeting of states party to the ICC treaty that he would seek arrest warrants for the leaders of rebel...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...
Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home...
Bolivia officials request extradition of ex-president from US
Bolivian officials on Tuesday formally requested that the US issue extradition orders for former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada to face genocide charges for his role in October 2003 riots [Amnesty International...