Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 27-page report on Monday alleging that Jordan conducted mass summary deportations of Syrian refugees without affording them an adequate opportunity to challenge their removal from the country. The report claims that Jordan deported 400 registered Syrian refugees each month during the first five months of this year, with an [...]
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Gill v. Whitford , a case directly challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s congressional districts with broad implications for the limits of political gerrymandering nationwide. The Court will address both procedural and substantive issues in this case. As a preliminary matter, the Court must determine whether [...]
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was convicted and sentenced by a Moscow court to 20 days in jail on Monday after for calling on his supporters to join him in an unauthorized rally in Nizhny Novgorod. Russian officials claim that the planned rally is one among many of Navalny’s repeated violations of the law concerning [...]
The Supreme Court began the October 2017 term with oral arguments in two cases, one concerning employment dispute arbitration and the other concerning criminal-removal in immigration proceedings. The first, Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis , questions the applicability and scope of two federal statutes: the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and the Nation Labor Relations Act [...]
Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev signed an agreement Monday demarcating 85 percent of the 1,280 kilometer Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. The Kyrgyzstan parliament had already approved the legislation early in September, but the president signing the “Draft Law on Ratification of the Agreement between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek State Border” is [...]
Carles Puigdemont, leader of the Catalonia government, announced Monday that the autonomous Spanish region had “won the right to an independent state in the form of a republic” after conducting a heated referendum in the region, despite the action being opposed by many international actors. International critics of the election quickly rushed to denounce any [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Friday blocked a Florida law that would require individuals and groups that offer abortion advice to provide an in-depth explanation of the procedure, lay out potential alternatives, notify parents before making a referral or aiding a minor, and register with the [...]
Germany’s new same-sex marriage law took effect on Sunday, allowing Karl Kreile and Bodo Mende, a couple for 38 years, to be the first same-sex couple to marry in the country. The couple was married in a civil ceremony at the town hall in Schöneberg, Berlin. The law, which had strong public support, was enacted [...]
Bangladesh and Myanmar officials agreed on Monday to a plan for the repatriation of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled across the border to Bangladesh. Under the agreement , refugees would have the option to return to Rakhine State and will only return “under safe conditions.” According to the UN, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, critically analyzes Trump’s “America First” foreign policy… Instead of exchanging corrosive epithets with Kim Jung Un, President Trump should focus on creating a better understanding of the North Korean dictator’s personal pattern of crisis decision. This would best be accomplished by more express thinking along the [...]
