President Biden signed S. 1404, the Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act, into law Tuesday. In a statement, the White House explained that the bill “provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal to the ‘Ghost Army,’ in recognition of their unique and highly distinguished service in conducting deception operations in Europe during World [...]

The United Nations Tuesday called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to retain the moratorium on the death penalty following the verdict of the Military Court Ex-Kasai Occcidental in relation to the killings of Ms. Zaida Catalán and Mr. Michael Sharp, former members of the Group of Experts on the DRC. The DRC has observed [...]

Human rights activists and organizations urged Thailand Tuesday against the deportation of activist Khoukham Keomanivong, founding member of pro-democracy group, Free Lao, back to his native Laos. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), Keomanivong was brought to Don Mueang Kwaeng District Court in Bangkok on Monday and convicted of overstaying his visa. He was then [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday ruled in favour of Russia in two human rights cases, finding the country’s handling of the employment and criminal cases did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. In Kramareva v. Russia, a Russian employee claimed a wrongful termination after another person was employed to perform [...]

North Korea has conducted ballistic missile testing in clear violation of international law, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a scathing statement released Tuesday.  Pyongyang provoked an international uproar this weekend after conducting long-range ballistic missile testing. The latest round was the most significant of its kind since 2017, and the seventh iteration of missile [...]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday a new “Brexit Freedoms Bill,” that will allow the country to remove or amend EU regulations with ease. The bill will allow legislators to remove “retained EU law” which was implemented under the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Act during the Brexit transition period. The UK officially left the [...]

ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday requesting access to COVID-19 booster shots for seven individuals (“the plaintiffs”) detained by immigration authorities. The lawsuit is aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). According to the Complaint, the seven plaintiffs have been denied the booster shot, despite multiple requests. The plaintiffs [...]

US Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday released the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, signaling a new executive effort to disrupt human trafficking networks and assist victims of trafficking. The new strategy draws its mandate from several pieces of legislation, including the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on Tuesday’s self-immolation of a young Myanmar man in Mandalay protesting electricity [...]

As we come closer to the opening of the Winter Olympiad in Beijing, China, a peoples in Western China is being destroyed “in whole or in part.” The world will assemble in the name of sport ignoring what is happening a few hundred miles away. It is a state-sponsored genocide by the very nation that [...]