UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons Chaloka Beyani on Friday encouraged the UN and the international community to address the safety and security of South Sudan’s internally displaced persons. The number of internally displaced persons in South Sudan has reached 640,000 since mid-December, and congestion at UN bases is creating [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian Harris, Willamette University College of Law, Class of 2014, discusses the many institutional problems faced by foster children with behavioral health issues…
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia certified a class action lawsuit on Friday challenging Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. “The amended proposed class … meets the requirements of numerosity, commonality, typicality, and adequacy of representation,” US District Judge Michael Urbanski said in his ruling. “Accordingly, the court will [...]
The African Union (AU) called Saturday for African countries to “speak with one voice” against the trials of sitting heads of state in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The statement comes in relation to the trial of two current heads of the Kenyan government, Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy, William Ruto . [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) issued a joint statement Friday calling on the Nepal Parliament to reject amnesty legislation that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court . The Ordinance on Truth, Reconciliation and Disappearances was struck down earlier this month for provisions that would have afforded amnesty [...]
The trial of Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi for inciting the murder of several protesters resumed on Saturday. Morsi appeared with 14 co-defendants before the court for the alleged acts committed at the Ittihadiya Presidential Palace in December 2012. Morsi continues to reject the charges by claiming the court has no jurisdiction because he is [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Morse Tan of Northern Illinois College of Law argues that the atrocities in Syria present a complex problem in international law that must be navigated so the people of the embattled nation may be protected …
A New York state judge on Friday approved an $8.5 billion settlement between Bank of America (BOA) and almost two dozen mortgage securities investors, holding that the 2011 agreement was reached in good faith. In a 54-page ruling, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick found that BNY Mellon, a party in the matter, [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Canadian government on Friday to institute an independent national inquiry into violence against women in the country. HRW also urged the government to establish greater accountability for cases of police misconduct. HRW found that the police have failed to adequately protect indigenous women and girls from violent attacks, specifically [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Rupert Colville on Friday voiced extreme concern about the increasing amount of violent attacks on members of the media in Egypt. Many attacks came on Saturday when journalists were attempting to report stories on the third anniversary of the Egyptian revolution . Some of these journalists suffered [...]
