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UN experts concerned about health of jailed China rights lawyer

March 23, 2018 02:43:22 PM

UN human rights experts expressed concern Friday over the diminishing health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting subversion of state power. Jaing's health has dramatically deteriorated in recent months, and the...

December 23, 2017 12:00:07 PM

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday...

December 23, 2017 12:00:03 PM

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. ...

December 18, 2017 03:57:37 PM

UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston warned Friday that "he American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the US ... now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the...

June 3, 2016 02:56:42 PM

A group of UN independent human rights experts said Friday that human rights violations contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Special Rapporteurs on the right to health Dainius Pῡras, human rights defenders Michel Forst, extreme poverty,Philip Alston...

March 24, 2015 12:53:14 PM

UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston on Tuesday warned that poverty in Chile "remains under the radar for many policy-makers ... despite the country's impressive array of anti-poverty programs." Alston...

February 14, 2015 07:37:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Chris Jenks of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, evaluates the progress in adherence to human rights and international law in Central African Republic and claims that notwithstanding efforts of global community, it is hard to...

January 22, 2015 11:29:47 AM

Members of a UN investigatory commission reported on Wednesday that crimes against humanity have been widely committed by all parties to the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) and called for the establishment...

November 11, 2011 11:00:07 AM

A US military court on Thursday convicted an army squad commander of three counts of premeditated murder for leading a "kill team" in Afghanistan that targeted unarmed civilians and collected body parts as war trophies. While three of...

October 17, 2011 08:00:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Morris Davis of Howard University School of Law says the recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaqi highlights the fact that the CIA drone program violates the law of war because it is a civilian institution, lacking combatant immunity...I...

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Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody

On September 12, 1977, South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died in police custody after having suffered a massive head injury during interrogation following his arrest. The story of journalist Donald Woods' investigation into the circumstances of Biko's death was the basis of the 1987 film Cry Freedom. Read an address on Stephen Biko delivered by then-South African President Nelson Mandela on the 20th anniversary of Biko's death in 1997.

Supreme Court unanimously rejects state challenge Brown v. Board of Education

On September 12, 1958, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a state government challenge to Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which had overturned segregation. In Cooper vs. Aaron, the State Government of Arkansas challenged the authority of the Court to implement desegregation. The Court responded by forcefully re-asserting its authority and the authority of the federal government over the states.