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International Tribunals

Military II Trial - Last Defendant Begins His Defence 20 October

Captain Innocent Sagahutu, accused of genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), will begin his defence on 20 October, the last of the four defendants of the "Military II" case, reports Hirondelle...

Country Not Deserving of Security Council Slot

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Anne Mugisha The UN Charter entrusts the UN Security Council with maintaining international peace and security. There are five permanent members of the UN Security Council originally drawn from...

Germany welcomes court ruling against refugees [The Earth Times Online Newspaper]

Berlin - The European Court of Human Rights rejected Thursday a land claim by ethnic Germans who lost homes in Poland during the Second World War, and Germany's Foreign Ministry praised the ruling. The private claim by a...

RIGHTS-CHILE: Ten Years of the ‘Pinochet Effect’

SANTIAGO, Oct 9 (IPS) - The arrest of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) a decade ago in London set the justice system in motion in Chile and in other countries in the world, stimulated the attempt to get at...

Israel, Palestine and the Rule of Law

Israel, Palestine and the Rule of Law: the Rights and Wrongs of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. With Professors John Dugard and Normal Finkelstein Wednesday, October 15 Booth Auditorium, 7:00 pm In July 2004, the...

Sudan president Omar Bashir dismisses Darfur rape allegations

Sudan's President Omar Bashir has said the mass rape did not happen in Darfur and dismissed allegations he is responsible for genocide as "fabricated and made up". Speaking on Channel 4 News, Mr Bashir said: "No one has more...

Strasbourg court fines Russia $121,000 over Chechnya deaths

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia pay 88,800 euros ($121,000) in compensation to relatives of two groups of Chechens killed or abducted in the republic in 2001-2002, the...

Africa's prospects: Opportunity knocks

With world markets in turmoil, an unexpected and overlooked continent may benefit from its very isolation TAKE a snapshot of the main news stories around Africa. In Nigeria, its most populous country, the insurgency in the...

Council of Europe calls on Bosnia to condemn homophobic violence

An assembly of European parliamentarians has condemned the recent attacks on the organisers and participants of the Sarajevo Queer Festival by a homophobic mob. The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly also drew attention...

Rwanda genocide suspect deported to Africa

Published: Oct. 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM ARUSHA, Tanzania, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A former top Rwandan politician indicted by a tribunal for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide has been deported to Africa from Germany, officials said....