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The South Korean government Tuesday established a committee of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) to investigate alleged human rights abuses in North Korea. The formation of the new committee is expected to become a...

On the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that US President-elect Obama should act quickly to bring the United States back into compliance with international...

JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder, currently teaching European Union law at Bogazici University and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that while the European Commission, aided most recently by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, has taken...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that not only should the incoming Obama administration close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, it should close down the stigmatized military base as a whole, coverting...

The British and Falkland Islands governments announced Thursday that they have agreed on a new constitution for the disputed South Atlantic Islands, a British territory also claimed by Argentina. Under the new constitution, primary governing power is...

South Korea will join the European Union and Japan in supporting a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution condemning North Korea's human rights practices, according to a South Korean foreign ministry official Tuesday. The resolution...

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has urged the Mexican Senate to change a law requiring those who file criminal complaints to verify their immigration status. CNDH said Sunday...

Officials from the German Foreign Ministry on Saturday said that Germany will seek a ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to block new claims for personal damages resulting from Nazi actions in World...

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday adopted by 185-3 a resolution urging the US to lift its longstanding embargo on Cuba . Only the US, Israel, and Palau voted...

The Russian State Duma , the country's lower house of parliament, on Wednesday unanimously approved military defense agreements signed with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last month. The...