Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi announced Wednesday that she filed proceedings in the Federal Court against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over one of Hanson’s tweets, which Faruqi alleges breached the Racial Discrimination Act. Section 18C of the act prohibits “offensive behaviour based on racial hatred”, with offensive behaviour being defined as acts that “offend, [...]

Libyan activists told The Guardian Wednesday that six Libyan Christians are at risk of being executed for converting from Islam and spreading their religious beliefs. After being arrested in March by the Libyan Internal Security Agency (ISA), the six were accused of “making people leave Islam” in violation of the Libyan Penal Code. Article 207 [...]

As tension rises over the impending breach of the debt ceiling, Biden aides are apparently debating the question of whether the debt ceiling is constitutional.  Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that “the validity of the debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for [...]

Despite legal protections against age discrimination and record-high job vacancies, a significant number of Australian organizations are reluctant to recruit potential employees over the age of 50, a new survey revealed.  Nearly one-fifth, or 18%, of Australian HR professionals expressed a complete reluctance or only a limited willingness to actively recruit workers between 50 and [...]

Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a rising 3L at the University of Ottawa.  On Monday, May 1, the jury for the coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of 35-year-old British Columbia man Myles Gray during [...]

The act of donating blood is often lauded as a benevolent and altruistic act with the potential to save countless lives. However, members of the LGBTQ+ community are routinely excluded from participation in this philanthropic endeavour. Recently, the Indian government, citing scientific data, defended its decision to forbid LGBTQ+ individuals from donating blood. This issue [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released their 2023 Press Freedom Index and accompanying report Wednesday, noting that the rise of artificial intelligence, “fake content” and authoritarianism endanger journalistic integrity and expression around the world. As in past years, the organization says that most countries have “problematic,” “difficult” or “very serious” press freedom situations. RSF has also [...]

The Kremlin press service said Wednesday that Kyiv had deployed drones to the Kremlin the night prior in an attempt to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin. As a result of efficient actions taken by military and special operations services using radar systems, the devices were taken [...]

The New York State Assembly Tuesday enacted the State Fiscal Year 2023-24 Budget which will phase out the use of fossil fuels in buildings beginning in 2025. The budget also mandates that new buildings exclusively use electric heating and cooking. This provision will take effect for buildings shorter than seven stories in 2026 and taller [...]

In a joint statement issued Wednesday, 51 human rights organizations called for the immediate release of Salah Soltan, an Egyptian-American legal scholar and the father of a prominent US human rights defender. Soltan, a former professor of Islamic Law at Cairo University and founder of the Islamic American University in Michigan, was arrested in Egypt [...]