The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday affirmed the dissolution of human rights NGO Memorial International, Russian state news agency TASS reported. According to TASS, Memorial International is recognized as a foreign agent NGO and has been fined for violating Russian laws on foreign agents. The European Court of Human Rights called for Russian General Prosecutor Igor [...]

A group of Jamaicans are demanding reparations for slavery from England. British Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate are set to have a three-day visit to Jamaica. The visit, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee (70th anniversary) of the Queen’s coronation, will officially begin Wednesday and end on Thursday. This visit is also during [...]

For Oleh Kornat, a lawyer-turned-member of the Ukrainian resistance, a disturbing element of Moscow’s invasion of his country has been its misuse of the term “genocide” to justify it. “Civilians are being targeted. Maternity wards have been attacked. Children with cancer have been displaced. And this has all happened under the guise of Russia’s ostensible [...]

“The dust from which the first man was created was gathered in all four corners of the earth.”          – Talmud Reforming International Law In the midst of Russia’s escalating crimes against Ukraine, the United States and other nations have one widely  overlooked obligation: To re-examine and re-conceptualize core elements of authoritative [...]

On February 24, 2022, at about 6:00 AM, I woke up to a telephone call from my friend. I was at home in Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, located near the border with Russia. “The war has started” were the first words I heard that day. I just stayed in the middle of my [...]

On the second day of confirmation hearings Tuesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questions from members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Tuesday’s hearings started off with Senator Dick Durbin asking Jackson about her judicial philosophy and how she decides cases. Jackson shared a three-step process she follows while deciding any case. When a case [...]

A federal judge Tuesday found Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin guilty of trespassing on US Capitol grounds during last year’s January 6 Capitol violence. The second defendant to go on trial on charges stemming from the riot, Griffin was convicted on a charge of entering a restricted area and acquitted of disorderly and disruptive [...]

The Third Texas Court of Appeals Monday reinstated an injunction to stop the state from proceeding with an investigation into the parents of a transgender teenager. On February 22, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse.” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments in two pending cases, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. and Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. In Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., the court must consider whether a requirement to prove prejudice when one party subject to an arbitration clause argues another party waived arbitration violates [...]

The US Department of the Treasury announced that it imposed sanctions Monday on the Republic of the Sudan Central Reserve Police (CRP) for serious human rights abuse. Under the sanctions, the Central Reserve Police will have any US-based assets frozen, and Americans will be banned from dealing with them. “Since the October 25 military takeover, [...]