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12 Jan 2007, 10:22 am
In a press conference at UN headquarters yesterday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon made the following statement concerning his position on the death penalty: Finally, many of you have been asking about my views on the death penalty. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 8:49 am
No deja de ser una buena noticia que, al fin, hayamos presenciado una comparecencia de un candidato con madera de juez constitucional. [read post]
3 Feb 2005, 7:04 am
[JURIST] Following up on a story reported this morning on JURIST's Paper Chase, the Independent Inquiry Committee [official website] (IIC) into the UN Oil-for-Food program [official website] has released its interim report [PDF text]. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 10:19 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] Thursday condemned Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder] and called on Israel to end its use of "disproportionate and excessive force" against Palestinians. [read post]
21 Aug 2003, 9:10 am
Helton, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and an authority on refugee and humanitarian law, was among those killed Tuesday in the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 8:12 am
[JURIST] A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on [press release] the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] to do more to protect human rights workers in the country, and to prosecute those who harm them. [read post]
12 Nov 2006, 6:08 am
[JURIST] Joseph Kony [BBC profile], leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army [MIPT backgrounder] in Uganda, asked UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland [official profile] Sunday to work with the International Criminal Court [official website] in lifting arrest warrants [PDF text] issued against Kony and several other top LRA officials. [read post]
30 May 2008, 8:23 am
[JURIST] The Balkan region, once plagued by a reputation for dangerous crime and political instability, is now one of the safest regions in Europe, according to a UN study [PDF text; press release] released Thursday. [read post]
EUGENE VOLOKH: “If the president and the mayor want to make ‘semi-automatic weapons’ ‘[un]available…
9 Aug 2012, 5:26 am
EUGENE VOLOKH: “If the president and the mayor want to make ‘semi-automatic weapons’ ‘[un]available to private purchasers,’ we have to realize just how broad this restriction would be. [read post]
25 Jul 2005, 9:16 am
[JURIST] With the US, Russia, and China announcing opposition to their plan [JURIST report], Japan and Germany have now approached smaller nations and possibly opened their pocketbooks in an attempt to win support for the so-called "G-4 Plan" for expansion [JURIST report] of the UN Security Council, according to envoys from Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 8:40 am
The UN-nominated judges [ [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 9:55 am
Reporting [press release; recorded video] to the UN Security Counsel [official website] on the status of the implementation [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 11:43 am
[JURIST] A Buddhist monk was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Myanmar during a visit by UN High Representative for Human Rights Tomas Ojea Quintana [official profile], an opposition lawyer confirmed Saturday. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 4:30 am
Keith Cunningham-Parmeter has published "(Un)Equal Protection: Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination. [read post]
31 Jul 2005, 4:14 pm
[JURIST] Lead Democrats in the US Senate spoke out Sunday against President Bush's expected recess appointment [JURIST report] of John Bolton [official profile] as UN ambassador without a confirmation by Congress, saying he "lacks credibility" and would be "damaged goods. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 7:51 am
EGYPT CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, “by condemning the 1978 UN Convention Against Gender Discrimination as ‘incompatible with the values of Islamic sharia.’ Need we tell you that the political forces behind this tastefully timed pronouncement were those empowered by the so-called Arab Spring? [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 9:25 am
CAIR decried the plan as "unconstitutional and un-American," saying that it could [read post]
6 Dec 2004, 3:32 am
[JURIST] UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw said in an interview Monday that he believed recently-proposed changes to the UN Charter (reported by JURIST's Paper Chase here) would allow for easier intervention in situations of human rights abuses like those that were taking place in Sudan and Iraq. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 11:46 am
Un hombre arrestado luego de un choque fatal el Día de Año Nuevo de 2013, que provocó la muerte de un pasajero y dejó gravemente lesionados a otros dos, fue encontrado culpable el martes por múltiples cargos. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 10:42 am
Un hombre murió y varios otros resultaron lesionados en el Condado de Manatee luego de verse involucrados en un choque multivehicular poco después de las 8:30 p.m. el jueves. [read post]
