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17 Jun 2015, 11:30 am
Frank Pasquale (Maryland), The New York Times’ Curious War on Traditional Higher Education: It’s a strange position for America’s “paper of record” to take. [read post]
24 Jun 2005, 3:23 pm
[JURIST] The World Tribunal on Iraq [advocacy website] on Friday accused the US of committing war crimes during the invasion of Iraq and claimed the United States has caused more deaths in Iraq than former dictator Saddam Hussein. [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 10:22 am
[JURIST] German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck [profile] says that he will refile a war crimes complaint [CCR press release] against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Spain with the help of Spanish counterparts after the German Federal Prosecutor's office Friday rejected a bid to prosecute the suit in Germany under that country's universal jurisdiction law [text], according to a report [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 8:49 am
[JURIST] The War Crimes Chamber [HRW backgrounder] of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday issued a custody order [press release] for a former Bosnian Serb special police officer suspected of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline, JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 8:34 am
[JURIST] A series of interviews with US veterans of the Iraq war shows a pattern of systematic human rights abuses, according to a new report [text] in The Nation [media website]. [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 12:43 pm
[JURIST] A Sri Lankan panel led by retired judge Maxwell Paranagama presented a report [text, PDF] to parliament on Tuesday, concluding that allegations that Sri Lankan troops committed war crimes are credible. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 9:40 am
[JURIST] Two Sudanese men suspected of committing war crimes related to the ongoing violence in the Darfur [JURIST news archive] region of Sudan surrendered [press release] Wednesday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 7:29 am
[JURIST] Former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston [JURIST news archive] on Sunday called for an investigation [Guardian report] into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 6:43 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday warned [press release] Syrian opposition groups that recent mass executions are in violation of international human rights, and that these acts may also constitute war crimes. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 10:29 pm
., may have brought to an end a long-running dispute over the impact on World War II government procurement contracts on the liability of major oil companies for the remediation costs at a major Southern California Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) site — the “McColl site. [read post]
26 May 2006, 8:01 am
[JURIST] In the wake of Thursday's release [JURIST report] by UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith [official profile] of a disclosure statement [text] outlining his actions in rendering advice on the legality of the Iraq war to the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair in the days before invasion, government critics and media have called for further action, describing the statement as inadequate [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 3:50 am
[JURIST] War crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder] agreed to end his nearly month-long hunger strike [JURIST report] Friday after an appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] ruled that Seselj could represent himself during trial. [read post]
25 Apr 2005, 10:31 am
[JURIST] Following yet another interruption because of his health problems, the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] resumed Monday at the International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [court website]. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 11:15 am
Read the rest of Bill to Rename Route 9 Bridge for Korean War Veteran Signed into Law (484 words) [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 9:27 am
[JURIST] All sides in the Malian conflict have committed war crimes [HRW press release] including summary executions, rape, the use of children as soldiers, and the pillaging of hospitals, schools, aid agencies and government buildings, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported Monday. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:54 am
The head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) [official website] Martin Kobler on Sunday commended [UN News Centre report] the sentencing of a former militia commander accused of war crimes. [read post]
21 Jun 2006, 2:18 am
[JURIST] For the first time in 20 years, a former government official is on trial for crimes committed during the Dirty War [GlobalSecurity.org backgrounder] in Argentina [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 9:10 am
[JURIST] The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] concluded Friday leaving judges in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] to deliberate on the verdict. [read post]
1 Apr 2004, 3:25 am
NATO forces early Thursday failed to capture fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic (see this BBC profile) in an operation in Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he had apparently taken refuge. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 12:19 pm
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] on Thursday voted [press release] to launch an investigation into alleged human rights violations during Sri Lanka's civil war. [read post]
