Search Results for: 1999-06-03

Human trafficking occurs across the globe, but the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) reports that it is more prevalent in regions of conflict. Women and children are more likely to become victims, and on August 30, 2005, the UN High...

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Monday that the government plans to put Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason. Sharif did not officially declare that the government was filing...

A Pakistani court on Tuesday granted bail to former president Pervez Musharraf in the case of his 2007 detention of senior judges. The detention came after Musharraf imposed emergency rule in Pakistan. Musharraf, however,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Leonard, the Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University, says that Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statements regarding the prosecution of George W. Bush and Tony Blair serve as an ardent call for advancement towards a...

Perry Moriearty, University of Minnesota School of Law

The Rwandan community courts set up to hear genocide-related cases, known as gacaca courts officially concluded their 10-year operation on Monday. The gacaca process has been praised by the UN as...

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Belarus Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2011 , imposing new sanctions on Belarus in reaction to what the bill's author calls "the worst...

An EU judge on Thursday placed senior Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj under house arrest for one month while awaiting trial on charges of war crimes stemming from the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

The European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Friday charged 10 former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with war crimes for their actions during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

Corruption in the Nigerian government has become endemic , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday, criticizing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) particularly and the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan [BBC profile;...