Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday she would send Friday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court to the Council of State to determine what the next steps will be in amending the country’s constitution. The Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that parliament could amend the constitution on a piecemeal basis, and that a national referendum [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released a statement on Friday expressing deep concern regarding the most recent violence in Syria, casting doubt over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s commitment to the recent peace plan agreed to by the Syrian government . The Secretary General was referring to the recent shelling of the city of Treimseh in [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a second warrant on Friday for the arrest of Congolese General Bosco Ntaganda on charges of war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between September 2002 and September 2003. Ntaganda is already wanted for war crimes in relation to the [...]
The African Union (AU) will vote on whether to establish a continental criminal court to try human rights crimes, an AU official said Friday. Judge Gerard Niyungeko, president of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR), said that he believes an African court would better understand the context of crimes committed in Africa, [...]
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of 16 individuals detained on accusations of having links to Kurdish militants. Busra Ersanli , a professor from Istanbul’s Marmara University, and 15 other individuals will be released after having been detained by local authorities for allegedly being involved with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) , which [...]
The Canadian government on Friday announced that it will appeal the decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia striking down a ban on physician-assisted suicides. The Honourable Rob Nicholson for Niagara Falls, the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Canada made a public statement about the planned appeal in the case of [...]
A lesbian couple filed suit in the US District Court for the Central District of California on Thursday seeking to achieve for gay and lesbian couples the same immigration rights afforded to heterosexual couples. Philippine immigrant Jane DeLeon lawfully married US citizen Irma Rodriguez, 49, in California in 2008, and they have now lived together [...]
The Guttmacher Institute released a study on Thursday detailing how the enactment of numerous anti-abortion laws over the past decade has affected the reproductive rights of American women and created discrepancies among states. The report notes that over the course of 2011 legislators in the 50 states introduced more than 1,100 provisions related to reproductive [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against several banks, including Bank of America (BOA) and Wells Fargo & Company , alleging that banks engaged in price-fixing practices when setting fees for using ATMs managed by other banks. The three-judge panel dismissed the complaint for lack of standing [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that the Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the Affordable Care Act will have lasting effects not only for the nation’s health care system, but also for the future interpretation of several key constitutional provisions…
