The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report on Friday welcoming a program, almost five years in the works, to register undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan. UNHCR estimates that between 600,000 to one million undocumented Afghans, currently living in Pakistan, will be now able to receive Afghan Citizen (AC) [...]
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Friday directing New Jersey school boards to “addres common issues concerning the needs of transgender and LGBTQ students, and to assist schools in establishing policies and procedures that ensure a supportive and nondiscriminatory environment for transgender students.” S-3067/A-4652 directs the Commissioner of Education to [...]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement through his spokesman on Friday condemning the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem. Ongoing clashes between the two groups have left three Palestinian men dead in East Jerusalem, while three Israelis were stabbed to death in a West Bank settlement overnight. In [...]
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an order Friday holding the state of Kentucky responsible for attorneys’ fees related to litigation involving a county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Two years after Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis defied the US Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell [...]
Abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks an injunction against against a Texas law that bans a common method of second-trimester abortions. The complaint was filed in response to Senate Bill 8 , which was signed in law in June by Texas Governor Greg Abbott . The bill bans second trimester dilation [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists, David M. Crane, of Syracuse University School of Law, and Richard Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, discuss the widespread implications of the US decision to close the Office of Global Criminal Justice… With the raspy barking of a US President in the background trying to “Make America [...]
Amnesty International (AI) accused Cameroon of torturing suspected supporters of Boko Haram in a report released Thursday. According to the human rights organization, hundreds of suspects were “subjected to severe beatings, agonizing stress positions and drownings, with some tortured to death” at the hands of government authorities. AI documented 101 cases of secret detention and [...]
Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced opposition leader Jatuporn Prompan to one year in prison for defaming Thailand’s current prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva . Jatuporn, a leader of the “red shirt” opposition party, which supports two of Thailand’s formerly ousted prime ministers, was convicted for calling Abhisit a “murderer” during a rally. Abhisit said that Jatuporn’s statement [...]
The Polish Parliament approved a bill on Thursday that will implement sweeping reforms to the country’s judicial system. Most notably, the bill will allow members of parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges, a move that the EU, many Polish lawyers, and citizens of Poland strongly opposed. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party pushed the [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) together with the FBI have seized and shut down AlphaBay, a criminal marketplace on the “dark web” on Thursday. The site, which has reportedly been operating on the dark web for the last two years, was used to sell numerous illicit products including illegal narcotics, computer hacking tools, malware, [...]
