Search Results for: 1999-11-19

JURIST Guest Columnist Damian Ugwu, Executive Director of the Social Justice & Advocacy Initiative, says that the recent bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria has ominous implications for a broad range of individual rights in the country...On November 29, 2011,...

The Algerian Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a draft ordinance repealing the country's 19-year state of emergency, delivering on a promise made the week before . The draft ordinance will have the force of law upon publication...

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 256-152 to authorize settlements between the US government and minority farmers for alleged discrimination. The settlements include $3.4 billion to resolve claims that the Department of the...

The US Senate on Friday authorized by voice vote settlements between the US government and minority farmers for alleged discrimination. The settlements include $3.4 billion to resolve claims that the Department of the Interior (DOI)...

A spokesperson for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) confirmed Tuesday that former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," intends...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday in a statement in anticipation of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that migrant and domestic workers still face abusive and exploitative treatment...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by Croatia accusing Serbia of genocide...

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,"...

A judge on one of Pakistan's anti-corruption Accountability Courts Tuesday dismissed charges against former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following her December 27 assassination . Charges that Bhutto possessed assets beyond...

The case of six foreign medics who were sentenced to death last year for infecting hundreds of children in a Libyan hospital with AIDS has been settled, according to the Gaddafi Foundation ...