Belgium on Wednesday announced a temporary suspension on the acceptance of single male asylum seekers in the country. The decision, announced by Nicole de Moor, the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, aims to prioritize families and children due to the increasing influx of such vulnerable groups. Nicole de Moor explained the decision, stating, “I [...]

President Joe Biden has repeatedly characterized the state of world affairs as a battle between democracies and autocracies, with America leading the coalition championing the democratic cause. According to the United States, this coalition aims to show the world that government of the people, by the people and for the people is the best model, [...]

In the 1930s, Europe watched through a haze of perplexity and inertia as Germany built a military structure practically unrivaled in human history. France and England, although threatened by the German war machine, chose the path of passivity and the belief that the worst could be avoided through diplomacy — even as the signs indicated [...]

The United Nations Human Rights Office said in a new report on Tuesday that criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia are forcing hundreds of thousands of individuals into online criminal activity, including operating fraudulent investment schemes and facilitating unlawful gambling.  While the scale of internet-based fraud in Southeast Asia is difficult to estimate, the report offers [...]

A US federal court in Washington DC found former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani guilty on Wednesday of defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss during the 2020 US presidential election. Freeman and Moss alleged that after Georgia election results were released, confirming that current President Joe Biden had obtained a majority of the [...]

Facebook’s parent company Meta has rejected the recommendation of its Oversight Board to suspend the Facebook account of former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for violating its policy on incitement. The decision stems from a January video in which Sen threatened his political opponents with violence, allegedly in violation of Facebook’s community standards.  In its [...]

A federal judge in New Jersey struck down AB 5207 on Tuesday, concluding that New Jersey’s ban on detaining individuals for violating US civil immigration laws is unconstitutional. US District Judge Robert Kirsch found that the New Jersey law, as applied to a private prison operators, violates the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. Kirsch found that AB [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel.   The Minister for Public Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, went on record in an August [...]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet recognized the Eastern European countries of Georgia and Moldova as “safe countries of origin” on Wednesday in an effort to reduce irregular migration. Refugee rights group PRO ASYL criticized the new recognition for effectively granting the German government quicker means to reject asylum applications from the two countries—which translates to [...]

UN experts condemned Monday the Russian Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss challenges to the constitutionality of recently enacted laws that criminalize any public act seeking to discredit the use of Russian Armed Forces. In the wake of the Russia-Ukraine War, these new laws have been used by Russian authorities to arrest over 20,000 people for [...]