Rights group urges Honduras to investigate violations stemming from 2009 coup
Amnesty International (AI) on Monday accused the Honduran government of failing to address human rights violations stemming from the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power....
The Kyrgyzstan interim government Sunday extended a state of emergency in the southern city of Osh, as government forces began to pull down barricades erected during riots last week between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. The state of emergency,...
A UN independent human rights expert on Thursday called for the immediate release of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other "prisoners of conscience" in order to create improved conditions...
JURIST Guest Columnists Olga Martin-Ortega of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict at the University of East London and Rosa Ana Alija Fernandez of the University of Barcelona argue that Argentina should exercise universal jurisdiction over claims brought by...
California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 14 , which alters the primary election system, creating an open primary where only the top two vote-getters would advance to the general election. The ballot initiative was approved by 54.2 percent ...
Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP) on Tuesday asked the country's high court to declare the recently approved changes to Spain's abortion laws unconstitutional. Under the new law, abortions performed in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ben Bratman of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul claims he opposes repealing the foundational Civil Rights Act of 1964, his controversial comments on race discrimination leave one...
JURIST Guest Columnist Dave Sidhu, founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative (DNSI) and a fellow at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, says that the soon-likely-to-be-complete domination of the US Supreme Court by graduates of two Ivy...
A Chinese court on Tuesday convicted Huang Guangyu, formerly China's richest man , of illegal business dealings, insider trading, and corporate bribery. Huang was previously the chairman of Pengrun Investments and founder of subsidiary GOME Electrical Appliances [corporate...
Lawyers for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a final appeal in Myanmar's Supreme Court on Monday challenging the 18-month extension of her house arrest. The appeal requests that the court forward her...
