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US President Joe Biden Wednesday spoke to the UN General Assembly. Biden used the forum to sharply criticize Russia’s war in Ukraine and tout his administration’s accomplishments. Biden began his remarks by telling the assembled world leaders: Let us speak plainly. A permanent member of the United Nations Security Council invaded its neighbor, attempted to [...]

The Demand and Supply Paradigm Fossil fuels remain the greatest global source of energy and are subject to the same demand and supply forces that govern all other resources. However, there is a growing imbalance between the two. In terms of demand, in the last three centuries, there has been an exponential increase in world [...]

The Czech Republic’s Minister of Foreign Affairs called on Saturday for “the speedy establishment of a special international tribunal that will prosecute the crime of aggression” after the discovery of mass graves left by Russian forces in Izium, Ukraine. The Czech Republic currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency as of July 2022   Ukrainian forces [...]

JURIST Deputy Features Editor Jaimee Francis talked with Ukrainian student Kateryna Kyrychenko to get her unique perspective on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kateryna is originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and is now based in the Czech Republic. This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with JURIST’s Ukraine correspondents, who include law and policy students [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, offers her perspective from Kyiv. The panic about the situation around Ukraine’s borders isn’t going away, but is it justified? Ironically, the [...]

Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced an agreement Thursday with Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala over Poland’s continued operation of the Turow Brown Coal Mine. The Prime Ministers met in Prague and agreed to collaboratively implement and finance methods “to detect, minimize and prevent the effects (including their monitoring) that result from the exploitation [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday found Russia violated Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights when it extradited one of its citizens from the Czech Republic. Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights grants individuals rights, stating that “veryone has the right to liberty and security of person. No [...]

The European Parliament voted 377-248 Tuesday to approve a resolution calling for a total ban on the use of the automated recognition of people in public spaces. The European Parliament’s resolution cites the failure of artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately identify minority ethnic groups, LGBTI people, seniors and women, and the concern this causes in [...]

Russian human rights organization Team 29 (Komada 29) whose members include journalists and lawyers announced Sunday it is liquidating. The move comes amidst fears about the country’s foreign agents law. Russian authorities have recently taken a number of actions targeting Team 29. On July 16, the organization’s website was blocked by authorities after the Prosecutor-General’s [...]

The European Court of Human Rights issued judgment on Thursday that mandatory vaccinations of children under the Czech Republic’s health policy do not violate Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The policy, mandated by section 46 of the Public Health Protection Act, requires long-term residents to undergo routine vaccinations covered by public [...]