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31 Mar 2006, 10:16 am
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC], the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website], has said that he is certain that the United States has secret detention facilities in Europe [JURIST news archive] and has demanded access to the facilities. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 10:05 am
UN Special Rapporteur on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [official website] Marzuki Darusman [official profile] is asking the UN to provide North Korea with notice that Kim Jong Un may be investigated for crimes against humanity. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 2:48 am
[JURIST] UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC] said Friday that the US must prosecute Justice Department (DOJ) [official website] lawyers who drafted four recently released top secret memos [JURIST report], which outlined controversial CIA interrogation techniques and their legal rationale. [read post]
11 Apr 2008, 4:12 am
McNabb sued the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) [official website] to stop his force-feeding [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 4:42 am
The UK has infringed upon the rights of disabled persons starting with welfare reforms in 2012 [BBC report], according to a report [text, DOC] issued Monday by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [official website]. [read post]
30 Mar 2006, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC], the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture [official website], told reporters Thursday that he is currently investigating allegations raised by the Falun Gong spiritual group [Wikipedia backgrounder], banned by the Chinese government, that thousands of its followers were being held in a Chinese "concentration camp" to be killed for organ-harvesting [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 10:24 am
[JURIST] Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski [official profile] said Tuesday that Poland plans to appeal a ruling [DOC text] by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website; JURIST news archive] that found Poland in violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights [text] for prohibiting a pregnant woman who had a serious risk of vision loss if she carried the [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 3:12 pm
[JURIST] A US district judge in enjoined the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday from enforcing an ordinance [DOC text] that prohibits illegal immigrants from occupying leased property. [read post]
23 May 2008, 11:57 am
[JURIST] The US will re-check its detention records to verify the accuracy of a report [text, DOC; JURIST report] filed last week by US officials with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child [committee website] concerning the number of minors it has detained in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Department of Defense officials said Thursday. [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 9:57 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] Tuesday ruled [DOC text; press release] that France violated the rights of a lesbian woman by refusing her application to adopt a child because of her sexual preference. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 12:35 am
[JURIST] The Colombian House of Representatives [official website, in Spanish] on Tuesday voted 85-5 [official results, DOC, in Spanish] to approve a bill [text, PPS, in Spanish] to hold a referendum on whether President Alvaro Uribe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can run for a third presidential term. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 9:59 am
The court granted the stay [press release] to consider an appeal by Hill, 52, regarding the recent change by the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) [official website; press release] to its lethal injection protocol, the traditional three-drug "cocktail" having been... [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 6:58 am
[JURIST] Head of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict [official website] Richard Goldstone formally presented [press release] the group's findings to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] Tuesday. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 6:00 am
DOC officials on Wednesday dedicated the state's newest $162 million prison. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 10:39 am
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] released a report [text, DOC] Thursday raising concerns over peace efforts in Colombia. [read post]
23 May 2007, 9:26 am
[JURIST] The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) [official website] has issued a report [DOC text] criticizing Japan's justice system on a wide range of issues at the conclusion of its 38th Session [official website]. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:50 am
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy [official website], Joseph Cannataci, presented a report [text, DOC] to the Human Rights Council [official website] on Wednesday condemning modern-day surveillance legislation and expressing grave concerns regarding the threat to privacy rights in the digital age [JURIST backgrounder]. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 7:09 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council [official website] adopted a resolution [text, DOC; materials] Monday condemning human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo [ICC materials] at the close of a special session [official website] on renewed violence in the country. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 6:04 pm
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC; JURIST news archive] said Monday that torture was widespread and routine throughout Sri Lanka. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 9:46 am
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] said [press release] Tuesday that a report [text, DOC], produced jointly with the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) [official website], "paints a bleak picture" of the human rights situation in Libya during 2014. [read post]
