The House decision to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) of committee assignments reflects a recent attempt to deal with a perceived failure in the marketplace of ideas. Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested in dissent over 100 years ago (Abrams v. United States (1919)) that the best way to arrive at the truth is by a “free [...]

Canada launched an initiative Monday to stop countries from arbitrarily detaining foreign nationals for diplomatic gain. This initiative was endorsed by 58 countries and the EU. Arbitrary arrests and detentions violate international human rights law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Canada created a declaration, [...]

Hundreds of women’s rights activists and their supporters protested in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Friday to call for an end to violence and discrimination against women and the scrapping of a proposed law that would restrict foreign travel for many women. The point of contention is a proposed law that would require women under 40 [...]

Homeless advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Friday, challenging a rule that “target the manner in which homeless persons use the subway system.” New York advocacy organizations Urban Justice Center (Safety Net Project) and Picture the Homeless seek to block a rule that bans the use of large wheeled [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, on Friday urged the US, the EU and other states to lift unilateral sanctions imposed against Venezuela, claiming that they have only “exacerbated pre-existing calamities.” Douhan, who had been traveling around Venezuela for two weeks talking to “the widest range of people [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) members voted Friday to elect British human rights lawyer and Queen’s Counsel Karim Khan as the court’s next prosecutor, taking over from Fatou Bensouda. The vote, which took place during the second resumed nineteenth session of the Assembly of States Parties, saw Khan win support from 72 nations, surpassing the 62 [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Thousands of citizens took to the streets in Myanmar again Monday to protest the military coup that deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, physically confronting military vehicles sent into several cities yesterday in advance of an 8-hour internet blackout and defying newly-stiffened penal laws threatening dissidents with imprisonment. JURIST’s [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Our law student correspondents in Myanmar continue to send reports of the latest developments on the ground, along with their perspectives and analysis of the legal issues presented by the February 1 military coup. These are excerpts from the first extensive report to JURIST received late last night after the Myanmar military’s [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – These are excerpts from the last full filing from our law student correspondents in Myanmar reporting to JURIST before Myanmar went into Internet blackout on Sunday: So many things can happen tonight. At night around 9 am, they send the prisoners who are just released into civilian towns to set fire or [...]

The US Senate on Saturday voted 57-43 to acquit former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge stemming from the deadly Capitol insurrection in early January. All fifty Senate Democrats and seven Republican Senators voted to convict Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors due to his alleged incitement of insurrection. But the final vote was [...]