UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez on Tuesday encouraged governmental review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners adopted in 1955, with particular emphasis on limiting solitary confinement. Mendez...
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In an open letter to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Kenya's UN Ambassador Macharia Kamau requested that the International Criminal Court (ICC) defer the trials against Kenyan officials . Kamau emphasized the country's...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Wednesday recommended a rule surrounding the obligations states owe to women during and after conflict. The recommendation...
Lawyers for five Guantanamo Bay inmates implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Tuesday argued that restrictive rules for classifying evidence violate the Convention Against Torture , a treaty that the US ratified in 1994. The lawyers...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the EU to allow migrants and asylum seekers to find refuge in Europe. HRW's statement comes in the wake of a tragedy earlier this month in which hundreds...
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that a warrant is required prior to the government's attachment of a global positioning system (GPS) device to a vehicle for...
The UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples James Anaya on Tuesday voiced concern over the fate of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , stating that its implementation would be...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the Thai government and parliament to reject a proposed blanket amnesty law that would prevent all prosecutions of people involved in political unrest, including protest leaders, military personnel...
Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called for the immediate release of well known Qatari poet Mohammed al Ajami, also known as Ibn al Dheeb, who received a...
