A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an independent review into the adequacy of the school’s response to sexual assault allegations by a former student, identified only as Jane Doe. Yates, formerly the US deputy attorney general under Barack Obama and now a [...]

A group of former and current students of Lincoln University (LU)  of Missouri on Wednesday sued the state of Missouri, alleging that the state’s intentional withholding of funds continues to perpetuate a history of “racially segregated higher education.” The LU plaintiffs argue that the state has “appropriated less per student to Lincoln than to the [...]

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Tuesday issued a joint statement condemning the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen for having sent at least eight people involved in human rights and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution on espionage-related charges punishable by death since August 18. The eight include two UN employees, a UN consultant, [...]

An EU spokesperson told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Wednesday that amendments passed by the Kosovo Assembly to narrow the jurisdiction of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers are in conflict with the country’s international obligations to the bloc. The spokesperson stated that Kosovo should honor its international commitments and that the court’s existing mandate and [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the French government to permanently ban stun grenades in the policing of all protests, saying the announcement of a temporary suspension does not go far enough. Welcoming the announcement from the French government, Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, stated: While the suspension of the use of these [...]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday condemned new building demolitions in the West Bank that have displaced 69 Palestinians, calling it the largest single-demolition displacement in East Jerusalem since the agency began tracking these figures in 2009. OCHA said that Israeli authorities demolished a residential bloc in At Tur [...]

A federal judge on Tuesday heard arguments on the attempt by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) to block the early review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its stations’ broadcast licenses, but did not issue an immediate ruling. During a two-hour hearing, Judge Loren AliKhan for the US District Court for the District of [...]

Tracy Harris is a JURIST contributor and a third-year student at the Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, and served as a judicial clerk with the Supreme Court of Namibia this summer as part of the inaugural Zaytoun clerkship cohort. This summer, the inaugural cohort of the Joseph E. Zaytoun International Judicial Clerkship [...]

A judge of Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the national arrest warrants against former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont, removing the immediate legal obstacle to his return to Spain after nearly nine years abroad. Pablo Llarena, the investigating magistrate in the court’s Criminal Chamber, issued the order setting aside the national search, capture and [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, acts that the Court’s prosecutors say constitute crimes against humanity. The four warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Education Minister Habibullah Agha and Higher Education [...]