Nine organizations reported UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) on last Thursday regarding her use of language when speaking about the British Pakistani community and asylum seekers during an April televised interview. The organizations urged the legal watchdog to investigate Braverman, who is a qualified barrister, stating that her remarks [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that former government employees can sue the city of San Francisco, California for infringing on their religious freedom after they were denied exemptions from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The court found that the vaccines are remotely “derived” from aborted fetal stem cells and that [...]
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday called for changes to international law regarding migration that experts think government will break by allowing UK ministers to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Sunak is scheduled to meet with heads of the EU and the ECHR in Iceland to discuss the changes. Sunak’s [...]
Thailand’s two major pro-democracy opposition parties—Move Forward Party and Pheu Thai—won a landslide in national elections on Sunday. The result reflected Thai voters’ rejection of the military-backed government, which has dominated the political scene for nearly a decade. According to a forecast on Monday, the Move Forward Party, whose reformist ideology grew in popularity among [...]
Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) announced on Monday that they have disqualified the main opposition party known as the Candlelight Party. The disqualification will effect the national elections, scheduled for July. The NEC claims the Candlelight Party has not provided relevant paperwork needed to register. The Cambodian People’s Party currently holds power and has done [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Monday ahead of the UN’s fifth scheduled review conference of the 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (“Chemical Weapons Convention”). HRW urged member states to uphold the convention’s ban on chemical weapons and “single [...]
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reflects on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and internal and international concerns about the Taliban government’s capacity or willingness to address the situation. For privacy and security [...]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) released a report Monday regarding Afghanistan’s humanitarian needs in 2023. The Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) highlighted that among the economic crisis and discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan, climate change has also contributed to the humanitarian needs of the country. The HNO took a [...]
The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case in which members of Congress are seeking the disclosure of information regarding a real estate contract entered into by one of former president Donald Trump’s companies. The case, Carnahan v. Maloney, began after an investigation into a 2013 contract between General Services Administration (GSA) and [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged countries involved in ongoing negotiations for an international anti-plastic pollution treaty to address the role of fossil fuels in plastic production. The organization also cited the need for human rights protections to be included within this Global Plastics Treaty. On November 28, 2022, countries began treaty negotiations based [...]
