Unclear privacy laws hinder violence prevention: US government report
A joint report delivered to President George W. Bush Wednesday by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Education, and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on the ability of...
Ukraine president spars with parliament as constitutional crisis deepens
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has refused to rescind Monday's decree ordering parliament to dissolve and new elections to be held in May as the constitutional crisis in Ukraine continues. On Tuesday, Yushchenko met with...
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that following the removal of Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry concrete constitutional reforms are needed to guarantee the independence...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty, a Toronto lawyer and vice-chair and counsel to the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations, says that Canada does not need a US-style "no-fly list" with all its limitations and potential abuses, but rather...
China to decrease number of executions but keep death penalty
China plans to gradually lessen the number of executions it carries out while still keeping the death penalty , according to a statement released Sunday by China's Supreme People's Court, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Security...
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) officially launched Thursday, taking over and expanding the responsibilities of the former European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) ....
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, says that since he began work in late 2003 his office has already faced and met several key challenges in bringing to justice persons...
Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, recommended...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006: 'Play it Again, [Uncle] Sam'
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Kathleen Duignan, Executive Director of the National Institute of Military Justice, says that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 again puts US JAG officers in the awkward position of litigating the shortfalls of a military legal...
Two terror suspects whose movement had been restricted under control orders in the UK were reported as missing Monday. One of the individuals is an Iraqi who appears to have been missing for several months,...
