Women law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar have written this open letter to women law students in Afghanistan, including those also reporting for JURIST, who face an uncertain and potentially grim future under the new Taliban regime. Given the military coup that suddenly upended human rights and the rule of law in the Southeast [...]
Chief Judge Miranda Du of the District of Nevada on Wednesday struck down 8 USC § 1326 (a) &(b), which criminalizes the re-entry of migrants who have previously been deported from the US, as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Section 1326 was struck down because the court found that [...]
At the end of May, Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, announced that his government would no longer prevent migrants from illegally entering Lithuania through Belarus. Throughout July, evidence emerged that Belarus had even taken active measures to encourage the flow of migrants, such as using government vehicles to escort migrants over the border. From [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s top market regulator, on Tuesday issued draft regulations for banning unfair competition on the internet and restricting the use of user data. The regulations have been drafted under the Law Against Unfair Competition, the Electronic Commerce Law, and the Administrative Punishments law. Business operators have been prohibited [...]
The Madras high court issued an order Tuesday directing the central government to consider enacting separate legislation providing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a statutory status. The CBI, India’s premier investigative agency, was established through an executive order under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. It comes under the administrative control of the Department [...]
The Warsaw Court of Appeal on Monday overturned the conviction of two noted historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, for libel. Grabowski and Engelking co-edited a two-volume, 1,600-page study published in 2018 titled “Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland .” In addition to documenting cases of Polish assistance to Jews who [...]
The Indian Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that women can sit for the NDA (National Defence Academy) admission exam in a landmark interim order which will allow more women to serve in India’s armed forces. The division bench comprised of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy who passed the interim order in a writ [...]
Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed concern Tuesday over recent reports of human rights abuses in Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover. According to Colville, the UN is receiving “chilling reports of human rights abuses, and of restrictions on the rights of individuals, especially women and girls, [...]
A disability rights group filed a complaint in federal district court on Tuesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting government agencies from issuing a mask mandate. Disability Rights Texas filed the lawsuit on behalf of 14 Texas school children, all of whom have disabilities or medical conditions that put them at increased risk [...]
