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Three NGOs Friday filed a lawsuit in France against three defense manufacturers for allegedly aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yemen. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Mwatana for Human Rights and Sherpa allege that Dassault Aviation, Thales and MBDA France, through their military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [...]

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a free trade agreement in Dubai Tuesday, Israel’s first with an Arab nation. The UAE-Israel Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed by Israeli and Emirati officials, strengthening links between the two countries which established formal relations in September of 2020. According to a report from Emirati [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately release a group of dissidents who have been behind bars beyond the end of their prison sentences. The “UAE-94” case concerns a mass trial conducted by UAE authorities against dissidents and members of the al-Islah political movement in 2012–2013, which Amnesty called [...]

US federal prosecutors in Brooklyn Tuesday indicted a fundraiser for the Donald Trump campaign on multiple charges amidst allegations that he illegally lobbied on behalf of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Thomas Barrack, the owner of a private equity firm, DigitalBridge Group has been charged with receiving funds from the UAE amounting to $374 million [...]

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis started to deteriorate in early 2021 when Ukraine arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk on allegations of conspiring a coup d’etat, and Russia initiated military exercises near the Ukrainian border. Russia is the second-largest oil producer, trailing only the United States, and the third-leading oil exporter, behind Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [...]

The UN Security Council (UNSC) Sunday resolved by a procedural vote to convene a special emergency session of the 193-member UN General Assembly to consider action regarding Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The session will be held on Monday. Earlier on Friday, Russia vetoed the US-led draft UNSC resolution which sought to end the crisis in [...]

The Russian Federation Friday vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) vote to adopt a draft resolution that would end the crisis in Ukraine. The draft was submitted by Albania and the US, and garnered eleven yes votes, with abstentions from China, India, and the UAE. The draft would have deplored the Russian Federation’s invasion of [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on a recent report by the World Food Program regarding growing rates of hunger and poverty in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our [...]

A consortium of 15 civil society organisations Tuesday published a joint statement against the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) new cybercrime law for “severely threaten and unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression (both online and offline) and the rights to freedom of association and of peaceful assembly” in the country. The new law has [...]

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Friday airstrikes launched by a Saudi-led coalition against a detention centre in Saada city, Yemen which left sixty dead and more than a hundred injured. The Secretary-General also reported an airstrike against a telecommunications facility in Hudayah resulting in deaths and injuries among civilians and children. The Houthi government [...]