Tory Secretary of State for Wales David Jones MP has come under criticism for his comments in an interview on…
As the world’s attention is focused on another part of West Africa, the citizens of the small, troubled country of Guinea-Bissau struggle to bring a worsening human rights situation to regional and international attention.
The UK police has used universal jurisdiction law to arrest Nepalese army colonel Kumar Lama in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The colonel has been accused of torturing during the decade-long (1996-2006) civil war in Nepal.
The recent report on replacing the Human Rights Act with a bill of rights reveals the confused and flawed arguments at the root of the proposition.
The constitution, approved in the midst of a political standoff between the president and the judiciary, provides for basic protections against arbitrary detention and torture and for some economic rights but fails to end military trials of civilians or to protect freedom of expression and religion.