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Image:https://michaelwest.com.au/not-so-secret-military-justice-review-at-odds-with-suicide-royal-commission/igadf-report-secrecy-1/ Caption:Image by Unsplash and the IGADF The review of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF), kept secret for six months, turns out to be an in-house report [...]

Byline: Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — US Air Force prosecutors have asked for new charges against the Massachusetts Air National guardsman who pleaded guilty in federal court earlier [...]

The Israeli military's top lawyer on Wednesday said that her office had discovered unacceptable conduct by Israeli forces in Gaza, including some that appeared criminal, and warned that commanders must [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt: U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) recently joined Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and a bipartisan group of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by U.S. Department of Defense: I am pleased to announce that the four Offices of Special Trial Counsel--within the Army, the Department of [...]

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder resumed briefing today after a grueling around-the-world trip with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. Ryder addressed the trip, the [...]

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder resumed briefing today after a grueling around-the-world trip with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. Ryder addressed the trip, the [...]

An ordeal at a mental health facility in Ukraine illuminated the horrors of the Russian occupation in the areas around Kyiv. BORODIANKA, Ukraine -- The first sign of trouble was [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette DAKAR, Senegal - Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters in the nation's largest city in October 2020, killing at least 15 and wounding dozens in [...]

Byline: Katelyn Ferral, The Cap Times Teresa James faced a colossal mission: Evacuate 1,500 military workers while moving thousands of trucks and tents off an American air base in central [...]

For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - Min Aung Hlaing, the military commander who led a coup against Myanmar's elected civilian government [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of New York Rep. Mondaire Jones: Today, Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) and Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-TX) introduced the Military Justice [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Iowa Senator Charles Grassley: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after the Defense Department's Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault [...]

(JURIST) - US Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin released a statement on Tuesday announcing that he will support changes to the military justice system that would allow independent military lawyers [...]

ARLINGTON, VA -- The following information was released by the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF): On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed a proposed change in the military justice system that [...]

Byline: Matthew M. Burke A Marine lieutenant colonel found guilty of stealing hundreds of dollars in merchandise from a base exchange in South Korea has escaped punishment, according to a [...]

Byline: John Vandiver The Air Force has failed to make reforms to fix racial disparities within its justice system and withheld documents to hide its 'abysmal record,' a watchdog group [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin: DoD's Most Recent Report Estimates Almost 21,000 Service Members Were Sexually Assaulted In 2018 Despite Repeated Efforts [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: UK nationals committed abuses in Iraq after 2003 on a significant scale. The International Criminal Court's Office [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO): We testified about our report on whether there are racial or ethnic disparities in the military [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of California Rep. Jackie Speier: Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Chair of the House Armed Services Personnel Committee, issued the following statement [...]

Byline: Niha Masih, Joanna Slater and Shams Irfan PARIGAM, India - It was near midnight when the soldiers came for Yassin Bhat. The 25-year-old pulled on some clothes and stepped [...]

GENEVA -- The United Nations expressed alarm on Friday about civilian deaths and other developing consequences from an escalating conflict between Myanmar's military, which undertook a brutally violent military campaign [...]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in leading a bipartisan group of senators to reintroduce the Military Justice Improvement Act. This legislation would professionalize how the military [...]

U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich reintroduced the Military Justice Improvement Act, which would professionalize how the military prosecutes serious crimes by moving the decision over whether to prosecute [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen: Shaheen and Bipartisan Group of Senators Reintroduce Military Justice Improvement Act June 13, 2019 **Renewed Push Follows [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez: Latest DoD report finds sexual assaults in the military increased, cases going to trial decreased Thursday, [...]

GENEVA -- Government forces were responsible for widespread killings and mass rapes after fighting broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, last month, the top United Nations human [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine The Pentagon's latest report card on its own efforts to bring down levels of sexual assault in the military, released this week, found that the number of [...]

Black troops are as much as two times more likely than whites to face military punishment, according to (http://www.protectourdefenders.com/disparity/) a study released by Protect Our Defenders on Wednesday .  Protect [...]

Byline: Sanya Mansoor The last time Ghulam Nabi Magray saw his teenage son Javaid, the 17-year-old was studying at their home in Srinagar in the Indian-administered Kashmir valley. It was [...]

DAKAR, Senegal -- In the course of Nigeria's war against the Boko Haram terrorist group, at least 7,000 people have died in government detention because of brutal conditions, an additional [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine Diane Martinez, a petty officer third class, was impressed by the Coast Guard long before she joined. Her husband had been serving for years, and in that [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nearly two-thirds of women in the military who filed sexual assault complaints last year said they faced retaliation, according to a Pentagon report released on Friday. The study [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan WASHINGTON - Instances of sexual assault among U.S. service members have fallen over the past year, a new report suggested Friday, but Pentagon officials said more work [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine To Pentagon officials, the survey on sexual assault in the military released Thursday is full of signs of progress. Reports of sexual assault are on the rise, [...]

(JURIST) - Chile's justice system allows for police brutality [press release] by requiring such cases to be heard in military courts, where similar personnel manage the judicial process, Amnesty International [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh's war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army [...]

BOSSO, Niger -- For the soldiers, the young men's long, flowing robes -- the traditional garb of Muslim West Africa -- were enough to establish guilt, the refugees said. ''As [...]

Byline: Harriet Sherwood The room is barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which [...]

Nov 11, 2014 (FrontPageAfrica/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- In a statement upon the presentation of the first Report, the President instructed the Chief of Staff of the Armed […]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New York Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's office released the following facts today. Any of the following can be [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Delaware Senator Christopher Coons: U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) teamed up with a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to introduce legislation [...]