Shamima Begum, a young woman who left the UK as a schoolgirl to join ISIS in Syria, has recently lost an appeal to regain her British citizenship. This decision, leaving her effectively stateless and in a Syrian detention camp, has sparked renewed debate. In this interview, JURIST speaks with Professor Ben Saul, a UN expert [...]
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13 presidential centers in the US released a joint statement on Thursday stressing the importance of the rule of law and democratic principles in the United States. Specifically, the group called for peaceful civil discourse about political topics and shared the necessity of democracy: We, the undersigned, represent a wide range of views across a [...]
UN Committee against Torture releases findings on four member states
The UN Committee against Torture issued findings on New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Switzerland on Friday in its latest session. The overarching “theme” of the session was the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which was used as a benchmark (as well as previous state reports) to identify if the four member states incorporated this [...]
Thalia Clerveau is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and [...]
Rule of Law Chronicles: Migration, Xenophobia and the Immigrant Other
This is the third article in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all people, systems and institutions are accountable to the same laws, processes and norms that work together to support equality before the law. This series argues that [...]
Surge in hate crimes in Canada, advocates call for anti-racism legislation
Statistics Canada has released a report showing a drastic increase in hate crimes from 2019 to 2021. The report shows a 72 percent increase largely across religious, racial or ethnic, and sexual orientation lines. The report shows an alarming 293 percent increase in hate crimes against East or Southeast Asian people between 2019 and 2020, which [...]
To the Person Sitting in Darkness: Buffalo, Racialized Violence, and International Law
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States,” said W.E.B. DuBois once. And now we have another day in the USA, another shooting by a white supremacist. Authorities say that an 18-year-old white male who apparently shot and murdered ten people in Buffalo, New York, was motivated by hatred [...]
On Friday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) and the President’s Advisory Commission on AA and NHPI. In recent months, hate crimes against Asian-Americans have increased due to the xenophobic rhetoric that blames Asians for the spread [...]
Biden signs four executive actions in pursuit of racial equity
US President Joe Biden signed four executive actions Tuesday aimed at addressing systemic racism and enhancing racial equity. Building on last Wednesday’s executive order, which introduced his administration’s plans to pursue racial equity, Biden first disavowed discrimination against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community over the coronavirus pandemic. “The Federal Government has a responsibility [...]
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued guidance on Thursday for police and border guards to combat racial profiling, placing special emphasis on “the serious risk of algorithmic bias when artificial intelligence (AI) is used in law enforcement.” The committee remarked that the increased use of big data, algorithmic profiling systems [...]
