UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday that she has received credible reports of human rights violations in several areas of Afghanistan under effective Taliban control, including summary executions, recruitment of child soldiers, and repression of women’s rights. Bachelet raised concerns for journalists, minorities, and civil society leaders now living under Taliban [...]
Apple, Intel and Pfizer joined 3,700 other US businesses Tuesday in their suit against the US regarding Trump-era tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese products. This lawsuit concerns the List 3 and List 4 tariffs imposed on Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which is enforced by the US [...]
UN-backed group Tech Against Terrorism stated Monday that tech platforms should prohibit or restrict the distribution of content from the Taliban. Pursuant to this, the group has added the Taliban, which has retaken control of Afghanistan as a result of the withdrawal of US forces, to its Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP), which detects verified [...]
Various civil society and media organizations on Monday issued a letter presenting key recommendations ahead of the G7 summit on the situation in Afghanistan, in order to ensure the immediate protection of journalists, media workers, and their families in the country. The 54 organizations asked all G7 countries to make a clear and explicit commitment [...]
The South Africa Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services confirmed on Monday that the country will extradite former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country rather than to the US. The decision comes after the beginning of a criminal trial over the $2 billion debt scandal that crashed its economy. In December 2018, [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law student in Kabul offers her latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding her name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only [...]
Calgary Sports and Entertainment (CSEC) announced Monday that, effective September 15, all future Calgary Flames, Stampeders, and Hitmen games will require every fan and employee that is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to have done so before entering their arenas. The announcement comes after the Edmonton Elks, one of the teams playing within the [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday requested the Supreme Court to uphold a moratorium on evictions in an effort to prevent millions of people from going homeless. The request cited the rising number of COVID-19 cases in areas across the country and the need to not place people in situations of increased risk. [...]
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Monday that it was imposing new sanctions over Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. There has been ongoing concern for human rights abuses throughout the Tigray conflict. In April, the G7 countries called for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in the region. The [...]
Ukrainian officials imposed sanctions against Andriy Derkach, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament who was accused by the US of being a Russian agent and interfering in the 2020 US presidential election, on Friday. During a briefing, secretary of the security and defense council, Oleksy Danilov, stated that Ukraine was sanctioning Derkach along with [...]
