Search Results for: 2015-10-05

Thailand's military-appointed legislature on Friday voted to impeach former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra , banning her from office for five years for corruption in a scheme to subsidize rice farmers within the country. In addition to the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday criticized the Ethiopian government, accusing it of systematically restricting media in anticipation of the country's May 2015 elections. The 76-page report, entitled "Journalism Is Not a Crime: Violations of...

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari on Tuesday in three appeals filed by military contractor KBR, Inc. , seeking to end lawsuits over a soldier's electrocution in Iraq, soldier exposure to open-air burn...

The UN Security Council on Monday condemned attacks by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria and called for an end to terrorist attacks and release of abducted child soldiers. The hostilities include mass...

Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner on Thursday after the Supreme Court failed to grant a last minute stay . Mr. Warner was sentenced to death in 1997 for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl....

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday condemned the recent violence in the town of Baga in northeastern Nigeria committed by the Islamic extremist group Boko...

Amnesty International (AI) released satellite images Thursday that allegedly show the destruction of more than 3,700 buildings in the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga. The Nigerian government claims the death...

JURIST Guest Columnist Danielle Ardner, Valparaiso University Law School, Class of 2016, discusses the lawsuit filed by district attorneys from San Francisco and Los Angeles regarding the safety of Uber ... On Tuesday, December 9th, district attorneys from San Francisco...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. The...

JURIST Guest Columnist Elinor Fry, of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, discusses the ICC's problematic jurisdiction over foreign Islamic state fighters...In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung published on November 20, the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda,...