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The Portugese parliament passed a controversial bill on Friday banning face coverings worn for gender or religious reasons in most public places. The legislation, proposed by the far-right Chega party, specifically targets Islamic garments such as the burqah, a full-body garment that covers a woman’s head to foot with a mesh screen for sight, and the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday warned that recent legislation in China may lead to escalated repression of ethnic minorities and extend “ideological control” beyond the country’s borders. The new legislation prioritizes Mandarin Chinese dominance across all regions of the People’s Republic. Article 15(3) of the law requires that minority language documents be accompanied by [...]

“History is an illustrious war against death.” Jose Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Policy Contexts and Legal Obligations Even after defeating Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah on tangible fields of battle, Israel has ample reason to stay vigilant against jihadi terrorism. In essence, Israel’s recent tactical successes have been partial and transient. This is [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday found that Russia has committed grave violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in Ukraine. Judges at the ECHR rendered a series of decisions related to consolidated complaints brought forth by Ukraine and the Netherlands since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014. Among the alleged violations [...]

Amnesty International called on Chinese authorities  Wednesday to cease their interference in Tibetan religious practices. The rights group criticized the Chinese government for attempting to control the selection process of the future Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. The statement urged China to comply with international human rights law. Amnesty International’s China director, Sarah Brooks, [...]

Rising authoritarianism, armed conflicts, and technological upheaval are eroding the foundations of international law. One state, with no army, no economic might, and physically smaller than many college campuses, continues to exert global influence through the quiet power of moral authority and legal advocacy. The Vatican, long underestimated as a relic of medieval diplomacy, arguably [...]

Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) on Friday urged the United Nations to prevent the Iranian government’s rising campaign of politically motivated killings. More than 300 global personalities supported the plea, including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, legal scholars, and human rights organizations. The coalition condemned Iran’s systematic [...]

Polish President Andrzej Duda sent a bill to the Constitutional Tribunal Thursday for review, seeking to expand on hate crimes provisions by adding sexual orientation, gender and other categories to the list of protected groups. The tribunal will consider whether the bill violates the constitutional right to free speech. The current Polish Penal Code includes [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the College of Commissioners on Wednesday to address the Indian government’s human rights violations during their upcoming meeting with the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 27. HRW joined several other rights organizations in a letter to [...]