Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Thursday offered an apology to Korea for Japan's 20th-century colonization of the Korean peninsula. At a meeting in Seoul with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan , Okada said that...
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Turks and Caicos constitution suspended as UK resumes direct rule
Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Gordon Wetherell issued an order Friday suspending the British Overseas Territory's constitution and submitting to direct rule by the UK after being directed to...
China's oppression of Uyghurs remains largely ignored by the global community
Mehmet Tohti : "Horrible video footage posted on the internet regarding the July 5th Urumqi massacre has brought some international attention and at the same time revealed the bitter reality that can be summarized as...
Africa regional court rules white Zimbabwe farmers illegally deprived of land
The Namibia-based Southern African Development Community Tribunal on Friday ruled that 78 white Zimbabwe farmers whose land was seized by the Zimbabwe government under its farm redistribution program were owed compensation and that the seizures...
Potential peace deal brings more questions than answers to Mindanao's people
Danilo Reyes : "There was no final peace agreement signed yet. What the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed so far was the draft of the Memorandum...
Eva Herzer : "The United Nations Charter, Covenants and Declarations set forth the internationally agreed upon standards of human ethics and decency necessary to protect the integrity and dignity of individuals...
France official warns against 'permanent repentance' for Algeria colonial crimes
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy warned Monday against apologizing for crimes committed during France's colonization of Algeria. His comments came in response to remarks made Sunday by prominent a French Socialist Party (PS) leader who...
Trying Habre in Senegal: An African Solution to an African Problem?
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the favorable response by Senegal's president to an African Union call that former Chadian president Hissene Habre be...
Indonesia court rules case against ex-dictator Suharto should continue
A court in Indonesia ruled Monday that the country's attorney general must reopen corruption charges against former President Suharto , saying that the charges should not have been dropped, but Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh...
Indonesia AG sued for dropping charges against ex-president Suharto
Several activist groups have sued the attorney general of Indonesia for dropping corruption charges against former President Suharto . Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh dismissed the charges last month because of the former...