Draft EU counterterror proposals lack rights protections: Marty
New EU anti-terror laws proposed by the European Commission fail to adequately reconcile human rights concerns and may conflict with the Council of Europe's Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism , Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly...
Negotiations on a new international treaty to combat global warming began Monday in Bangkok. The week-long negotiations, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , are intended...
Medellin v. Texas: state law trumps treaty obligations... unless Congress acts
Mark Warren : "Along with charting the boundaries of the President's foreign relations powers, the Medellin decision confirms the steady drift of the Roberts Court towards a major revision of the canons of treaty construction. The...
Cuba, Venezuela criticize US for failing to extradite anti-Castro militant
Representatives of Cuba and Venezuela Wednesday criticized the US during a UN Security Council meeting for failing to turn over anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles , saying that the US is bound by...
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the mixed success to date of Iraqi legislative initiatives aimed at rebuilding the country's legal order suggests that true progress and stabilization beyond the...
Immunity of Nigeria officials will ensure continued human rights abuses
Samuel Abiodun Adebowale : "In Chicago (USA), a U.S. District Court admitted a claim to investigate the responsibility of a former Nigerian head of state, Gen. Abubakar Abdulsalami, for gross...
Rights groups call for release of Cuban political prisoners held since 2003
Rights groups Tuesday marked the anniversary of a March 2003 crackdown on dissidents in Cuba by calling for the release of political prisoners detained during that round-up. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) , Human Rights First...
State Department deplores rights records of North Korea, Iran, in annual reports
The US State Department Tuesday heavily criticized the right records of North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Eritrea and Sudan Tuesday in its annual report on worldwide human rights observance. In the introduction to the...
UN panel urges US to address racial disparities in criminal justice system
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday concluded its review of US compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) . The...
JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of Australian National University College of Law, says that a looming May 2009 deadline for states to file data with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf established under the Law of the...
