News Clips – July 18, 2010

Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the Western Hemisphere to do so. [Washington Post] The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Al Bashir, who is wanted to face charges of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups.  The first warrant was based on charges of war

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U.S. Publishes Annual Trafficking in Persons Report

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of State put out its annual Trafficking in Persons Report.  This year, for the first time, the report includes a section on the United States; however, it was given the highest rating (complete compliance with the standards set in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)).  In the words of Secretary Clinton, “This human rights abuse

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News Clips – June 13, 2010

Physicians for Human Rights has published a report documenting illegal experimentation and torture by CIA medical personnel in the “war on terror”.  The report is available here.  Following the paper’s publication, PHR and other organizations filed a formal complaint before the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protection against the CIA. [PHR] Human Rights Watch

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News Clips – June 1, 2010

Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights enters into force today, introducing a number of changes to decrease the Court’s backlog, strengthen enforcement in order to reduce repetitive applications, concentrate its efforts on cases where applicants have suffered a “significant disadvantage”, and allow the European Commissioner for Human Rights to intervene as a third party [ECHR] Amnesty International

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ECHR Reviews Disappearance, Private and Family Life, and Freedom of Expression in Recent Judgments

The European Court of Human Rights issued a number of decisions this week and last against a number of States, including Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Albania, Romania, Italy, Serbia and the United Kingdom. Several of these recent judgments involved individuals who had been internally displaced by conflict or unrest, while others involved rights protected by Article 8 of the Convention (pertaining

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This Week at the ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights issued Chamber judgments in a diverse group of cases this week, finding: Russia responsible for violating, inter alia, article 6.2 (presumption of innocence) for a politician’s public comments about a defendant who had been criminally charged with rape and was pending trial at the time (Kuzmin v. Russia); Moldova responsible for violating article 2

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The Week's News

Human Rights Conditions *       President Bachelet declares state of catastrophe following powerful earthquake in Chile. [Washington Post] *       Interim government organized following Niger coup. [BBC] *       Ceasefire signed in Sudan. [Guardian] *       Waterboarding defended by former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. [New York Times] *       Russia pushed for details on investigation of Chechen human rights defender’s murder in July

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