NOVANEWS A UN body that tracks forced disappearance has reiterated its call to Yemen to produce a US citizen who has been missing from a prison in the country for nearly nine months. Sharif Mobley, […]
NOVANEWS by Denis G. Rancourt I live in Canada’s capital city Ottawa, walking distance from where a Canadian soldier was murdered at the War Memorial on the morning of October 22, 2014. The shooter, with the […]
NOVANEWS Christof Heyns says legality of law enforcement use of remote-controlled weapons must be considered by: Andrea Germanos, staff writer UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns speaking in 2013. (Photo: Jean-Marc Ferré/UN […]
NOVANEWS Pennsylvania governor signs law silencing prisoners’ voices as race and class-based mass incarceration ‘is being questioned more than ever,’ charges attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal by: Lauren McCauley, staff writer Observers charge that the “Revictimization Relief […]
NOVANEWS It would be completely backwards to suppress images of government misconduct on the grounds that they are too powerful to be disclosed when it is often disclosure, accountability, and ensuing reforms that prevent misconduct […]
NOVANEWS A large number of the Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons are being subjected to torture and abuse, a Palestinian official says. Rami al-Alami, who supervises Palestinian children at the Ofer Israeli military […]
NOVANEWS Guantanamo Force-Feeding by ALYSSA ROHRICHT Here’s one story: September 11, 2001, terrorists from al-Qaeda who hated the American way of life hijacked four passenger airlines and drove them into buildings in a coordinated attack against […]
NOVANEWS By Binoy Kampmark Global Research The Tories major announcement was to scrap the Human Rights Act, because, and I quote, people get very frustrated with human rights. Tim Farron, Liberal Democrats President, The Guardian, Oct […]
NOVANEWS by Rinaldo Francesca Of course, we are aware of the European Union’s commitment to the full and effective protection of Human Rights everywhere. After all, The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) “for over six […]
NOVANEWS By Lawrence Davidson The traditional criterion for state legitimacy was very simple. If a state and its government could hold and govern territory, it was legitimate, at least in the eyes of other governments. The […]