Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation Tuesday which imposes tough restrictions on abortion clinics and practitioners within the state. The Women’s Health and Safety Act was passed in the Alabama Senate by a 22-10 vote after having been approved by the state’s House of Representatives in February by a 73-23 margin. The legislation imposes new restrictions [...]
Thailand’s Constitutional Court agreed on Wednesday to hear a challenge to the process by which parliament amends the constitution. The court refused to grant an injunction on the existing petitions before parliament, as the senator who brought the challenge was seeking. The key provision before parliament would change Article 68 of Thailand’s constitution to prevent [...]
Uruguay’s Senate on Tuesday voted 23-8 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage . The bill creates one law covering marriage for both heterosexual and homosexual couples. It allows couples decide whose surname goes first when naming children; clarifies rules for adoption and in-vitro fertilization; and eliminates “husband and woman” in marriage contracts by replacing those [...]
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday signed into law an anti-rape bill providing for life terms and death sentences for offenders in addition to punishment for acid attacks, stalking and voyeurism. The bill also provides that all hospitals shall immediately provide medical assistance free of cost to the victims of acid attack or rape. Portions [...]
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday approved the first global arms treaty a week after Syria, North Korea, and Iran blocked it. The treaty, which regulates trade of conventional weapons, passed with 154 member states voting in favor of the treaty. Only 3 states voted against the treaty on the basis that it is too [...]
A court in France on Tuesday ordered Pascal Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan Army Captain, to stand trial for crimes against humanity committed during the 1994 genocide in that country. Simbikangawa was arrested pursuant to an international arrest warrant. He was the head of Central Intelligence under the Hutu Rwandan government during the 1994 Rwandan genocide [...]
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JURIST Guest Columnist Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, argues that the standard of review that the US Supreme Court ultimately uses in deciding US v. Windsor should not be perceived as the determinative element in that case’s eventual outcome…
JURIST Guest Columnist Linda D. Elrod of the Washburn University School of Law evaluates the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling that non-biological, same-sex parents can have parental rights….
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a law on Tuesday giving him the authority to select candidates for regional elections. Under the new law, Putin will have the ability to submit three candidates to legislature for approval for any of the country’s 83 regions. This structure can be used to circumvent direct elections. While Putin and [...]
