The Grand national assembly of Turkey ratified Wednesday the Paris agreement on climate change, a move coming nearly six years after it originally signed the agreement. However, as the last G20 country to ratify the agreement, Turkey is still dissatisfied with its classification as a developed country under the agreement. Despite signing the agreement in 2016, [...]

The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) found on Wednesday that the app store rules by Apple are anti-competitive due to regulations requiring software developers to use Apple’s in-app payments, according to a report by Reuters. The US company’s policy requires app developers to use their in-app functions, which can have commissions up to [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent developments, including a new Taliban agreement with Iran on border, transport and trade and oil matters. For [...]

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio signed a bill Friday that abolishes the death penalty in the country. The new law makes Sierra Leone the 23rd African country to officially abolish the death penalty.  Previously, the country’s legal regime allowed the death penalty for those convicted of murder, treason, mutiny, or aggravated robbery. Sierra Leone’s [...]

The European Parliament voted 377-248 Tuesday to approve a resolution calling for a total ban on the use of the automated recognition of people in public spaces. The European Parliament’s resolution cites the failure of artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately identify minority ethnic groups, LGBTI people, seniors and women, and the concern this causes in [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent economic and security developments. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation. [...]

The Partido Socialista Obrero Español and Unidas Podemos, member parties to Spain’s coalition government, have agreed to pass a new housing law with the goal of fixing rent prices and establishing a right to housing. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez approved a draft of the bill in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and announced 2.25 [...]

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) can take suo moto actions, or act without a formal request, based on letters, representations and media reports. The court delivered the landmark decision in an appeal filed by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai against an NGT order on waste disposal [...]

The Government of Karnataka announced the Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act, 2021 on Tuesday, prohibiting all forms of online games involving betting, wagering and gambling of any kind in the state. The amendment follows the Karnataka High Court’s order to the state government to consider a petition that sought to ban all types of online gambling [...]

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma, a final year law student at Amity Law School, reports on the Supreme Court of India’s response to a recent farmers’ protest against the government in which multiple protesters were killed. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. Yesterday the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of [...]