Search Results for: 2012-01-24

The Parliament of Uganda on Tuesday reintroduced legislation that would criminalize certain homosexual activities. Amnesty International (AI) has criticized the bill as "a grave assault on human rights." The proposed legislation is a...

JURIST Contributing Editor Amos Guiora of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that the lack of serious punishment for US troops involved in the 2005 killing of 24 innocent Iraqi civilians at Haditha requires immediate and...

Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution
Anne Twomey, University of Sydney Law School; January 30, 2012

A media adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday that the government will take legal action on behalf of the victims of the November 2005 Haditha killings ,...

The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday refused to replace a judge presiding over investigations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) after Cambodia attempted to block him. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet is the judge...

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced Tuesday that Eygpt's state of emergency that has been in effect for nearly 30 years would be lifted later...

Redefining Roe: Informed Consent and the Abortion Debate
Mary Ziegler, Saint Louis University School of Law; January 24, 2012

The second trial of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon began on Tuesday before the Spanish Supreme Court . Garzon has been charged with abusing power by opening an investigation into...

The French Senate on Monday passed a bill that outlaws denial of genocide crimes , including the World War I-era killings of more than one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. The Senate voted...

JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss...A recent undercover investigation...