A UK human rights group and law firm announced Monday that they will bring legal proceedings against the British government for sharing intelligence with the US to assist in drone strikes against Pakistan. The London charity Reprieve and Leigh Day & Co will sue Foreign Secretary William Hague at the High Court in London on [...]
A 2009 Ethiopian law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is sabotaging charity work and undermining human rights in the country, Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday. Ethiopia’s Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSP) blocks Ethiopian NGOs from accepting more than 10 percent of their funding from foreign sources and gives the government authority to appoint NGO leadership positions. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kimberly White, Lewis & Clark Law School Class of 2013, is a Legislative Review Editor on the Animal Law Review. She argues that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment…
The City Hall of St. Petersburg in Russia on Sunday announced that the city’s governor signed into law a bill that would impose fines against people convicted of promoting homosexuality, including gays or lesbians who are open about their sexuality. Governor Georgy Poltavchenko signed the bill on Wednesday despite complaints that it discriminated against the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Julie Nice of the University of San Francisco School of Law says that the ruling in Golinski continues the momentum of recent decisions rejecting defenses that deny the designation and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples and their children…
The President and Chief Justice of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) on Sunday told the National People’s Congress (NPC) that the country must continue to implement legal reform to combat corruption and foster social and economic growth. In his address to the annual meeting of the NPC, Chief Justice Wang Shegjun recommended that courts work [...]
An Egyptian army doctor was acquitted of obscenity by a military tribunal Sunday in relation to alleged forced virginity tests performed on detained protestors during the revolution last spring. The court refused to find that the forced virginity tests occurred despite a prior court ruling and allegations from Amnesty International (AI) quoting military generals. Military [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Reed Brody, Counsel and Spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, argues that to secure justice for Hissène Habré’s victims, the International Court of Justice must force Senegal to adhere to its international obligations and extradite the former Chadian dictator…
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Marcelis, University of California, Davis School of Law Class of 2013, is a staff member of the Business Law Journal. He explains the holding AT&T v. Concepcion, discusses its implications on future cases and reviews Congress’ response to the case…
An independent UN expert announced on Friday that proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization would “unduly restrict the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression.” Maina Kiai , the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of [...]
