Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Issues
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY, the Tribunal) raised worldwide questions about the legitimacy of internationalized criminal justice and the impartiality of the tribunal with its recent acquittals of Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac. The …
As communication and commerce increasingly shift into the cyberworld, some states and experts have questioned both the breadth and method of criminal law to protect commercial and public interests. In his “Recommendations for Potential New Global Legal Mechanisms Against …
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Comisionados: Dinah Shelton, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, Felipe González
Peticionados: Fundación Myrna Mack, Red Legal y su Observatorio de Derechos Humanos y VIH
Estado: Guatemala
La Procuraduría de …
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Commissioners: Dinah Shelton, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, Felipe González
Petitioners: Fundación Myrna Mack, Red Legal y su Observatorio de Derechos Humanos y VIH
State: Guatemala
The Guatemalan government’s …
Petitioners: Indian Resource Law Center, Centro de Estudios para la Justicia Social “Tierra Digna,” Asociación Colectivo Mujeres al Derecho, Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, Corporación Colectivo
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In the summer of 2011, India’s National Population Stabilization Fund (Fund) instituted a new scheme in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, a rural town west of New Delhi, offering incentives for area residents who agreed to undergo sterilization surgery. Government health officials created …
On August 6, 2011, Tajikistan’s president, Emomali Rahmon, signed the Parental Responsibility Law into effect, banning children under the age of eighteen from attending religious services or events except funerals. Enforcement began on August 31, the last day of Ramadan, …
In August, Nepal elected its fourth prime minister since its first democratic election in 2008. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, a member of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), stepped in to lead the Constituent Assembly away from its political …
Commissioners: Dinah Shelton (President), María Silvia Guillén, Rodrigo Escobar Gil
Petitioners: Asociación Popular Campesina de Desarrollo (APCD), Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de El Quiché (ADIQKUMOOL), Asociación Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala (CONAVIGUA), María Toj Mendoza (desplazada de la …
As law students with ethics and procedural rules still fresh in our minds, we are outraged by laws … [Read More...]
