Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved an amendment to its Pre-School and School Education Act on Wednesday, prohibiting its education system from promoting LGBTQ+ views in schools. The anti-LGBTQ+ law, introduced four weeks ago by far-right and pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane, received an overwhelming majority in Bulgaria’s 240-seat parliament, securing 135 votes in favor, 57 against and eight abstentions. [...]
Police in Barcelona, Spain failed to arrest Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday after Puigdemont appeared before a crowd at a separatist rally to deliver a speech. Puigdemont marched toward the Catalonian Parliament while surrounded by his supporters and vanished after the speech. It is unknown how he entered Spain or vanished after the [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday refused Shamima Begum’s application for permission to appeal the 2019 decision to revoke her British citizenship, ruling that the grounds of appeal “do not raise an arguable point of law”. The decision comes after Begum lost her Court of Appeal challenge in February this year, in a protracted legal challenge [...]
The UK government, Wednesday, urged social media platforms to take responsibility for harmful online content in light of the surge of violent anti-immigration riots sweeping the UK and a recent online anti-immigration “hit list.” Government regulator OfCom has released an open letter to UK online service providers about content on their platforms which may incite [...]
Civil society representatives spoke to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, arguing that gender perspectives must be integrated into all components of peace missions. The speakers emphasized that the “critical situation in Sudan provides fundamental lessons for the United Nations to draw down or terminate peacekeeping missions in other transitional countries where women’s lives are at [...]
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and the Police Reforms Working Group published a statement on Wednesday urging the National Police Service to respect and uphold human rights ahead of demonstrations in the country planned for Thursday. The joint statement underscores the police’s constitutional commitment to preserve the right to peaceful assembly while also protecting [...]
The Copenhagen District Court sentenced a Polish citizen to four months in prison and imposed on him an entry ban for six years for assaulting Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June, local media reported on Wednesday. In a verdict rendered by a unanimous jury, the Copenhagen District Court convicted the man for violence against [...]
President Biden’s recent proposal for eighteen-year term limits for U.S. Supreme Court Justices is a watershed in the perennial controversy over the composition and powers of the U.S. Supreme Court insofar as it is the first time that a sitting President has called for institutional reform of the Court. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Court-packing plan [...]
Mykyta Vorobiov, Senior Editor for Long Form Content at JURIST, recently spoke to Mohammed Ismail Noorzad, a legal contributor to JURIST who after three years of uncertainty and struggle eventually got to Germany from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Now in Berlin, he talked about his departure from Afghanistan, the rule [...]
UN experts in Geneva issued a press release urging the Australian government to immediately fulfill its commitment to compensate the families of 39 murdered victims of war crimes in Afghanistan in adherence to International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on Wednesday. A military inquiry that was conducted in 2020 indicated that [...]
