A UN expert warned Thursday that racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and other intolerance are entrenched across sports. Dr. Ashwani K.P., the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, gave her report to the Human Rights Council, saying, “sport has the extraordinary ability to bring people together,” “yet, sport is not isolated from society,” because “it [...]

A coalition of human rights organizations urged the EU and its member states Wednesday to demand transparency and human rights safeguards in ongoing negotiations for a bilateral extradition treaty between Vietnam and Thailand, warning that the agreement could provide a legal framework for the politically motivated arrest and forced return of Vietnamese dissidents and refugees. [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday prevented Philadelphia’s “ICE OUT” mandate from taking effect, holding that the law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to remove masks and display badges sidesteps a “clear constitutional mandate.” Following a lawsuit by the Department of Justice (DOJ) disputing the legality of the order, Trump-appointed Judge Chad Kenney’s [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday warned that Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger’s recent decision to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will paint a bleak future by denying thousands of conflict survivors their right to truth, justice, and reparations. In commenting on the gravity that this decision [...]

It was autumn 1774.  In British North America and on the island of Great Britain an intellectual, political and legal revolution that was intended to recognize America’s unique status within the realm would become the sword of American independence.  The First Continental Congress drafted a document not for the purpose of securing liberty, but for the purpose [...]

“Ddddddd… rrrrrrr… ttttttttt!” My brother stares at me in complete bewilderment just as I hold a baby corn in front of my face, waving it with the solemnity of someone confronting a geopolitical enemy rather than a vegetable. “Ah, America… don’t hit me with your corn… I’ll eat your corn, and then you’ll see who [...]

International criminal law has no crime that squarely covers the deliberate, large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure—a gap a recent white paper proposes to close by recognizing ‘Mass Destruction’ as a new crime against humanity. Its author, Professor David M. Crane, is the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and an internationally [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday released a new report concluding that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their siege and capture of El Fasher in North Darfur state in Sudan. The report titled, City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces’ Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur, documents [...]

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. On June 11, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court delivered a bail order that extends quite a bit further than its [...]