Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s leadership, the Sri Lankan civil war reached a brutal conclusion on May 18, 2009, ending a 25-year-long conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist rebel group. Rooted in longstanding grievances, including discriminatory policies against Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, the conflict saw the [...]
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Belgium court sentences prominent far-right activist Dries Van Langenhove to prison
Dries Van Langenhove, leader of the Belgian far-right movement Schild & Vrienden, was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison and fined €24,000 ($26, 249 ). The Ghent Correctional Court issued its verdict in the case against Van Langenhove and six other defendants who were all charged with violations of racism and negationism laws, including Holocaust [...]
Armenian state news agency Armenpress reported Friday that the country’s parliament will consider ratifying the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the treaty that established the ICC. Armenia signed the Rome Statute in October 1999 but has not ratified it. In 2004, Armenia’s Constitutional Court found that the Rome [...]
Israeli Nuclear Deterrence Against Broad Spectrum Attacks: Strategic and Legal Considerations
“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” – Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s (1984) Abstract: Theoretic assessments of Israel’s nuclear strategy – especially ones concerning a prospective shift from “deliberate nuclear ambiguity” to “selective nuclear disclosure” – generally [...]
Impact of the New Abortion Act Passed by the US House of Representatives
JURIST Guest Columnist, Yvonne Lindgren, of Indiana Tech law School discusses the implications of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017" and how it will affect poor women and women of color...On January...
On the Road to Abolition: Capital Punishment and Its Uncertain Future in the United States
JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...
Families of Srebrenica victims file complaint in Europe rights court
Lawyers for the families of three Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Friday filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) seeking to bring charges against...
UN rights experts: Paraguay government failed 10-year-old rape victim
A group of UN human rights experts said Monday that the Government of Paraguy "failed in its responsibility to act with due diligence" towards a 10-year-old girl who was raped and became pregnant. According to the experts,...
Canada top court: Quebec has 'no legal right' to federal government's long-gun registry
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the federal government does not have to relinquish its gun-registry database to Quebec. The Court's 5-4 decision affirmed Parliament's constitutional right over criminal law. Although...
Dutch government to compensate families of Srebrenica victims
The Dutch government on Thursday announced plans to compensate relatives of three men killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Each family will receive €20,000 euros (USD $27,734) as compensation for the deaths of their...