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JURIST Guest Columnist Eileen Gauna of Southwestern University School of Law. now visiting at the University of New Mexico, says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster is a classic instance of environmental injustice, the longstanding pattern whereby people of color and...

Sunni Arab leaders threatened Wednesday to boycott the upcoming referendum on Iraq's draft constitution if US troops do not stop offensive operations in western Iraq. US forces Tuesday launched their second offensive in a week [AP...

Human Rights Watch said Monday that insurgent groups are committing war crimes in Iraq by targeting civilians and other non-combatants. In a new report , HRW documents attacks against civilian targets and other insurgent...

Minority Shiites who make up about about ten percent of Saudi Arabia's population have petitioned King Abdullah for prisoner releases and equal opportunities a month after the new monarch in his first address to the nation ...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard rejected allegations Monday that Muslims were being targeted by new proposed anti-terrorism laws , saying that the laws were necessary to "protect the Australian community at a time of unprecedented and...

The US House Resources Committee Thursday approved the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act , legislation that would overhaul the Endangered Species Act by limiting the government's ability to protect...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that his state will recognize the civil unions and domestic partnerships of other states, although not same-sex marriages. In a legal opinion , Blumenthal stated, "Civil...

The Israeli Justice Ministry has decided not to charge police for shootings that killed 13 Israeli Arabs during violent protests in October 2000. In closing all investigations stemming from the incident, the Police Investigations Unit on Monday...

Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande told the UN General Assembly Sunday that Rwanda is dissatisfied with United Nations reforms pushed through at the 2005 World Summit last week. The agreement [PDF...

Widespread hunger strikes at the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are troubling senior US commanders and presenting serious challenges in managing the detainees, the New York Times reported Sunday. As many as 200 detainees...