The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Friday said that there is growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, with accusations leveled against both sides in the conflict. Michelle Bachelet said that since the beginning of the war nearly eight weeks ago, “International humanitarian law has not merely been ignored but seemingly tossed aside.” The Human [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan Thursday stated that the Venezuelan government had requested him to defer an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed since 2017 to national authorities. The ICC prosecutor began his initial investigation into the situation in Venezuela in November 2021. The Venezuelan government filed this request under Article [...]

A former Guantánamo Bay detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Friday commenced legal action against Canadian authorities for $35 million over their alleged role in his detention. Slahi’s claim alleges that Canadian security personnel provided false information about him when he was a permanent resident in Montreal in 1999 and falsely accused him of participating in the Millennium [...]

Brazil’s opposition party Friday challenged President Jair Bolsonaro’s pardon of his political ally, Daniel Silveira, as unconstitutional. On Thursday, Bolsonaro pardoned Silveira who had been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison for hate speech and “crimes of threat to the Democratic State of Law.” The Sustainability Network Party or Rede Sustentabilidade, Brazil’s [...]

The Florida legislature Friday voted to revoke Disney’s special tax status. The revocation is said to be a result of Disney’s opposition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Disney’s theme park in Orlando, Florida spans 25,000 acres and pays several billion dollars in local and state tax revenue. In 1967, the area where the [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on the rapidly rising number of airstrikes and terror bombings in Afghanistan (including one he personally witnessed Friday) that have killed or wounded at least 400 people in the [...]

A Moscow district court Thursday ruled that Google must pay 7.2 million rubles (approximately $86,394) in fines for distributing content outlawed in Russia. The decision by Judge Timur Vakhrameev found Google guilty under Article 13.41 of Russia’s Administrative Code which penalizes the failure to delete information deemed illegal by the legislation of the Russian Federation. [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague Thursday ruled that Colombia must stop interfering and trying to control fishing activities and maritime research in parts of the Western Caribbean off the coast of Nicaragua. This decision ends a long conflict between Nicaragua and Colombia that began in 2012. At that time, the ICJ [...]

A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked a new Kentucky abortion law from being enforced by state officials. HB 3 went into effect last week after the Kentucky legislature overturned Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of the bill. The bill is modeled after a Mississippi law that is currently under consideration by the US Supreme Court. HB [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday announced that former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández would appear before a New York federal court after being extradited to the US to face charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. From about 2004 to 2022, Hernández allegedly participated in a corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy to facilitate [...]