Zimbabwe’s parliament on Monday voted to amend its constitution to empower the president to handpick the nation’s top judges. With this amendment, President Robert Mugabe will have substantially greater power than he did under the 2013 constitution. Under the previous version, the president’s power in selecting top judges was limited, as he could only choose [...]
The Texas Senate voted Tuesday to advance SB 3 , which has been referred to as the “bathroom bill.” The bill requires persons using multi-occupancy restrooms, showers and changing facilities in a political subdivision, which includes public and open-charter schools, to use the restroom which matches the sex designated on their birth certificate or driver’s [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected a DC legal restriction that required an applicant to have “good reason to fear for their person or property” in order to acquire a concealed carry permit. The law was blocked by a 2-1 vote. The opinion stated that the “good [...]
An Egyptian court sentenced 43 individuals to life in prison Tuesday for crimes of vandalism, rioting and attacking Egyptian authorities. The acts for which the protesters were convicted took place in 2011, among an outbreak of demonstrations against then-president Hosni Mubarak . The defendants were also fined 17 million Egyptian pounds. Ten other protesters were [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued an expansive report on Tuesday calling for a “moratorium” on surgeries designed to “normalize” intersex children, those who are “are born with chromosomes, gonads, sex organs, or genitalia that differ from those seen as socially typical for boys and girls.” The 160-page report, titled “I Want to be Like Nature [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Abhishek Trivedi, LLM Faculty of Studies, at South Asian University – New Delhi discusses the implications of the International Court of Justice decision in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case… On May 18, 2017 the order of provisional measures was given by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in favor of India in the [...]
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte promised Monday to continue to escalate the war on drugs in his country despite international concern over human rights violations. The war on drugs, which has been a staple aspect of his presidency and his public rhetoric, has been met with strong opposition from the international community, which has pointed to [...]
In a statement to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee voiced her concern on Monday over the worsening human rights situation in Myanmar. During her 12-day visit at the invitation of the Myanmar government, Lee stated she witnessed government security [...]
A federal district judge on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s election commission to move forward by dismissing the need for a prior privacy impact assessment before collecting voter data. US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction requested by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) against the Presidential Advisory Commission [...]
Iran’s judiciary chief asked the US Monday to release Iranians jailed in the US and to return Iran’s assets after President Donald Trump called on the state to release three detained US citizens. Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani renounced the US claims and brought his own in a televised speech to other top-ranking [...]
