JURIST Guest Columnist Jess Kyle, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Class of 2015, discusses the International Criminal Court’s African involvement in light of Kenya’s withdrawal…
Turkey lifted its ban on women wearing traditional Islamic headscarves in public institutions on Tuesday. The official lifting of the ban occurred just eight days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the change, which is part of a package of human rights reforms that Erdogan proposed. The reform package will include allowing Kurdish [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez on Monday urged the US to immediately end the solitary confinement imposed in 1972 on a former Black Panther. Albert Woodfox was serving a prison sentence for armed robbery in 1972, when he and another inmate Herman Wallace were charged and convicted of fatally stabbing a guard. The [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Francois Crepeau urged the EU on Monday to adopt a new approach to migration that focuses on the rights of migrants. The discussion was centered around last week’s sinking of the Lampedusa off the coast of Italy, which claimed the lives of 194 Eritrean and [...]
The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Monday annulled results from the first round of presidential elections and called for a new election before October 20. A probe of the September 7 voters list found irregularities in 5,623 of the votes, including minors, people voting more than once, deceased people and people not listed in [...]
A group of 130 African organizations on Monday published a letter urging African members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to declare their support for the court at the upcoming African Union (AU) summit. Amid accusations that the ICC has unevenly targeted Africa, there have been recent rumors that some African members are considering withdrawal [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Madigan v. Levin the court was asked to decide whether age discrimination claimants can circumvent the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and bring claims directly under the Equal Protection clause and 42 USC § 1983 . The US Court of Appeals for [...]
Japan’s Kyoto District Court on Monday ordered a group of activists to pay 12 million yen (USD $120,000) to a Korean elementary school for holding anti-Korean demonstrations that disrupted classes and frightened children. The rallies took place between December 2009 and March 2010 and were attended primarily by members of the ultranationalist Zaitokukai group, which [...]
Four Saudi Arabian women became the first female lawyers to receive legal licenses Sunday, permitting the women to practice law for five years. Women with law degrees had been able to work as legal consultants but were banned from practicing law in courtrooms or operating law firms. Female lawyers were not allowed to practice before [...]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood filed a lawsuit Monday appealing a court verdict ordering the interim government to seize the group’s assets. The decision by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters handed down September 23 declared that its ruling would apply to all organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, including its political arm, the Freedom and Justice [...]
