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19 May 2006, 2:25 am
[JURIST] The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California [official website] Thursday released a grand jury indictment [text, PDF; press release, PDF] of leading US class-action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman [law firm website] and partners David J. [read post]
24 May 2006, 12:05 pm
[JURIST] The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) [official website] warned that ongoing sectarian violence is significantly hindering human rights progress in the country in a bi-monthly report [DOC text; press release] released Tuesday. [read post]
13 Sep 2008, 3:42 am
[JURIST] Council of Europe (COE) [official website] Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg [COE bio] released his report [PDF text] on the status of human rights [press release] in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Friday, praising ongoing efforts by the FYROM government to improve human rights, but also highlighting shortfalls in the judiciary, law enforcement, and [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 1:51 pm
[JURIST] On Thursday, former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] announced [press release] that she will discontinue all appeals [JURIST report] and that she will solely rely on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] to intervene [ECHR case materials] in her conviction. [read post]
5 May 2012, 9:06 am
President Dmitry Medvedev [official website] signed [press release] a federal law ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) [text] on Thursday. [read post]
17 Feb 2016, 8:58 am
The Australian government violated the rights [press release] of former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] when they continued to detain him after a transfer deal with the US, the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] said in a report [text, DOC] released Tuesday. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 11:01 am
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom [official profile] declared [press release] a state of emergency Monday for the next 15 days as political tensions between the president and the Supreme Court continue to escalate. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 9:12 am
[JURIST] The Obama Administration's [official website] panel charged with reviewing the cases of detainees at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] concluded its review [DOD press release] of detainee Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid on Thursday, unanimously finding him eligible for transfer to Yemen. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:47 am
The High-Level Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents [WHO statement] released a report [text, PDF] Tuesday imploring world leaders to allocate 5 percent of their country's GDP in "public health spending," according [press release] to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website]. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 12:37 pm
Press release from the ACLU: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2008 Contacts: Kary Moss, ACLU of Michigan 313-578-6813; Rachel Hart, ACLU, (212) 549-2638; Dionne Scott, CRR, (917) 637-3649; Sarah Scranton, PPAM, (517) 482-1080 ext.1 WASHINGTON - The U.S. [read post]
14 Feb 2003, 6:42 pm
[JURIST] President Bush Friday released the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism [PDF text; White House press release], a policy paper setting out general foreign policy and domestic law enforcement strategies to counter and suppress terrorist threats [HTML version also available from the State Department]. [read post]
28 Jul 2005, 11:50 am
[JURIST] Indonesia Thursday continued to characterize an international tribunal for the 1999 East Timor violence [Wikipedia backgrounder] as "unnecessary" despite a UN report [PDF full text] formally released Wednesday that called for international oversight [UN press release]. [read post]
6 May 2014, 7:37 am
[JURIST] Venezuelan security forces have abused and unlawfully detained protesters, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] report [text, PDF; press release] released Monday. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 4:00 am
[JURIST] The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Maoist rebels [BBC backgrounder] are violating international human rights laws [OHCHR press release, PDF], according to a new report [text] released by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] Thursday. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 4:26 pm
[JURIST] The International Judges and Prosecutors Programme [backgrounder] of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) [official website] has failed to meet international standards to ensure fair trials, according to a report [PDF text, press release] released Wednesday by Amnesty International [advocacy website]. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 4:02 am
[JURIST] The UN on Monday appointed [UN press release release] five new judges to serve on the UN Dispute Tribunal, and seven new judges, including one American, to the UN Appeals Tribunal. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 6:08 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Wednesday ordered [text, PDF; press release] former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC materials, JURIST news archive] to remain in custody until his trial next spring. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 10:30 am
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration today issued a press release, TIGTA Publicly Releases Report on Identity Theft Involving Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers: An estimated 1.2 million tax returns filed in 2007 reported wages earned by taxpayers who used another taxpayer's Social Security Number, a sign of possible identity... [read post]
28 Jul 2006, 9:21 am
The ACLU described [press release] the surveillance operations as "disturbing trend" fueled by "greater [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 2:50 am
[JURIST] The administration of US President Barack Obama [official website] has improved government transparency over the Bush administration, but there is more that should be done, according a report [text, PDF; press release, PDF] released Tuesday OpenTheGovernment.org [advocacy website], a coalition of public interest groups. [read post]
