The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Monday that Cambodia has sovereignty over a disputed piece of land around the 1,000-year-old Temple of the Preah Vihear , in an attempt to settle an ongoing border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand. The ICJ reasoned that its 1962 decision awarding Cambodia control over the temple and its [...]
The Egyptian government has detained more than 1,500 Syrian refugees and has forcibly deported some refugees back to Syria, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. The refugees were detained after trying to migrate by boat to Europe in order to escape the Syrian Civil War . In the press release, HRW noted that Palestinians from [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Enkelena Gjuka, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2014, is the author of the sixth article in a 10-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Gjuka calls upon the Securities Exchange Commission and Congress to increase diversity on corporate boards…
The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Sunday suspended the nation’s presidential election for the third time. Former president Mohamed Nasheed received the most votes at the official election Saturday, but Maldives’ protocols called for a runoff to be held Sunday. According to media sources, numerous political entities petitioned the high court to halt the [...]
A UN independent rights expert on Friday called on the Benin government to better protect the rights of children after a visit to the country reportedly revealed widespread abuse and exploitation. UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Najat Maalla M’jid reported that many adults abuse and exploit children [...]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Saturday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to vacate the decisions of US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ordered sweeping changes to the New York Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk program . It is speculated that Bloomberg seeks to ensure that Scheindlin’s changes to [...]
Bangladesh authorities on Saturday arrested senior leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia. The arrests were made shortly after BNP announced a new 72-hour strike , scheduled to begin Sunday. Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh are expected to be held between now and the end of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Andy Grewal of the University of Iowa College of Law says that the oral arguments in US v. Woods suggest that the Supreme Court is more interested in a jurisdictional issue, and discusses an argument, which neither party addressed, that could be dispositive of the jurisdictional question …
A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on Friday upheld a New Jersey law banning the use of sexual orientation conversion therapy. The unidentified parents of a 15-year-old boy filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction on the law, allowing them to continue using conversion therapy on their son, as [...]
The Hawaii House of Representatives voted 30-19 Friday to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage . A point of contention during the committee hearing was the introduction of religious exemptions to the bill, allowing religious organizations to withhold services if the same-sex marriage would be a violation of thei beliefs. Governor Neil Abercrombie , who [...]
