The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) formally unsealed war crime charges against four Russian soldiers on Wednesday. The soldiers charged with three war crimes each—unlawful confinement, torture and inhuman treatment—and one count of conspiracy to commit war crimes. The defendants face a maximum penalty of life in prison. None are currently in custody. In [...]
Elizabeth Haigh is JURIST’s Chief of Staff for the US and a 2L at the University of Nevada, William S. Boyd School of Law. She files this dispatch from Las Vegas, Nevada. This dispatch was initially filed at 4:40 PM EST/1:40 PM PST. Updates to the initial dispatch are included below. On Wednesday, December 6, [...]
The UK’s Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) released a report Wednesday warning the government that their strategy to improve the lives of disabled people in the UK was inadequate. They described the strategy as “un-coordinated” and urged the government to rethink their plans into a longer-term, more organized approach. The National Disability Strategy, published in [...]
The Lower House of the Indian Parliament, known as the Lok Sabha, passed two bills on Wednesday aimed at introducing and implementing reservations for members of schedule castes, tribes, socially and educationally “backward” classes within the legislative assembly, employment sphere and professional institutions within the territories of Jammu and Kashmir. Reservations in India are a [...]
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo issued a decree Monday dissolving the opposition-led parliament, following “the seriousness of the events of November 30 and December 1” which the president described as an “attempted coup.” The decree, which came into force immediately, states that the events “constituted an attempt to subvert the constitutional order, resulting through this [...]
In September 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched investigations into possible child labor violations by meat and chicken processors Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods. The investigation, which is to determine whether migrant children are working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants, follows a New York Times magazine report of minors working at the facilities [...]
Human rights groups Oxfam Novib, PAX, and The Rights Forum are seeking to halt the Dutch government‘s export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel in a hearing that began Monday. During summary proceedings in front of the Hague District Court , they argued that such exports make the Netherlands complicit in potential war crimes, [...]
Germany’s civic space was rated as “narrow” in a new report from global rights watchdog CIVICUS Monitor. Germany was one of seven countries downgraded in the People Under Attack 2023 report, which analysed how governments protect citizens’ freedom of expression in 198 countries. The report found that over 30 percent of the world’s population now [...]
The UK Metropolitan Police stated Tuesday they arrested nine people for displaying a pro-Palestinian banner outside a house in London. This is the most recent police action since then Home Secretary Suella Braverman ordered on October 10 police to increase their scrutiny on displays of Palestinian support amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a post [...]
The Peruvian Constitutional Court ordered the immediate release of former President Alberto Fujimori on Monday, disregarding a resolution from the the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) that the release should be blocked. Despite Peru being bound by IACHR decisions, the Constitutional Court now asserts that the IACHR exceed its supervisory jurisdiction by ordering the [...]
