The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday calling on authorities in Myanmar to address a number of human rights concerns related to the treatment of the country’s Rohningya population. The committee, which focuses on social, humanitarian, and social issues, voted 135-10-26 to adopt a wide-ranging text urging the government [...]

Luisa Ortega Díaz, Venezuela’s deposed chief prosecutor, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling for the arrest and trial of top Venezuela officials for crimes against humanity. These officials include, President Nicolás Maduro , Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, and Interior Secretary Néstor Reverol. Ortega Díaz alleged that “8,290 deaths [...]

A US District judge declared a mistrial in New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez’s federal corruption trial on Thursday after questioning the 12 jurors. Following several hours of deliberation, the jury announced that they were “hopelessly deadlocked” in a note sent before noon that read: “We cannot reach a unanimous decision. Nor are we willing to [...]

On Thursday UNSMIL chief Ghassan Salamé suggested to the United Nations Security Council that a joint tribunal should be considered to try individuals suspected of war crimes in Libya. In the speech to the Security Council the chief expressed views that Libya is in a state of lawlessness with crimes being committed each day. Salamé [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied the Department of Homeland Security‘s (DHS) petition seeking to put a hold on a district court’s order requiring the DHS to provide additional justification for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The district court had ordered the DHS to [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday released a report detailing humanitarian crisis incidents that may amount to war crimes in the Philippines. The report is titled ‘The Battle of Marawi’: Death and destruction in the Philippines and is a look at the five month battle that occurred in Marawi earlier this year. AI found that during [...]

The US House of Representatives approved HR 1 , a bill which will overhaul the US tax code, by a vote of 227-205 on Thursday. The bill proposes a $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut for business and individuals throughout the country. The legislation currently proposes a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Krauss of the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School discusses the “crime fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege and how it applies to the recent situation with Paul Manafort and Robert Mueller… The attorney-client privilege is a common law privilege against testifying about the content of confidential communications between clients and [...]

The chief judge of the EU’s rule of law mission in Kosovo, Malcom Simmons, resigned Thursday over frustrations with corruption, he alleged in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde. The mission, known as EULEX, exists to promote the rule of law in Kosovo, mentor lawyers and judges in that young nation’s justice system, [...]

Russia’s State Duma , the lower house of parliament, voted unanimously Thursday to require foreign media organizations to label their materials as the work of foreign agents. Additionally, the law could potentially force media organizations to disclose their sources of funding, finances and staffing. Two broadcasters with ties to the US, which operate seven regional [...]