France published a decree on Thursday which, as of Friday, prohibits businesses from offering unlimited soft drinks. The decree, approved in 2015 by the French Parliament in an effort to reduce the nation’s obesity, bans the serving of unlimited beverages with added sugars or sweeteners for free or at a fixed price. While France already [...]
France’s Constitutional Council, struck down a section of the Law on Equality and Citizenship on Thursday that expanded the definition of parental authority in the Civil Code to include rejecting all cruel, degrading and humiliating treatment, including all recourse to corporal violence. The law did not include any punishment for violating the act, but was [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming “repeal and replace” strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring equitable access to quality care… On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump [...]
A Pakistani man who was convicted of killing a cleric in 2002 can be executed , according to the Supreme Court of Pakistan Friday, despite having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The court stayed the execution of Imdad Ali last October as his wife, Safia Bano, appealed the conviction on the grounds that he required treatment [...]
The Minister of Security and Justice for the Netherlands resigned Friday, making him the third member of the Dutch government to resign amid a scandal involving a USD $2.1 million deal made between prosecutors and a drug trafficker. Ard van der Steur is a member of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberal Party , which now [...]
Democrats in the California State Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would make California the first state to include three gender options on state identification documents: male, female and non-binary. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Toni Atkins and co-written by Senator Scott Wiener . If passed, the Gender Recognition Act [...]
Military courts in Lebanon are trying civilians, including children, in matters regarding political activism and protest against the government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. HRW said that 14 individuals who protested the 2015 waste management crisis are facing up to three years when their case goes before a military court on Monday. HRW argues [...]
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed HB 1032 into law on Thursday banning the most common abortion procedure employed in the second trimester of pregnancy—dilation and evacuation. Proponents of the law, titled “The Arkansas Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act,” called the procedure “barbaric” and stated that it required “dismemberment” of the fetus, while opponents [...]
Turkish citizens hae filed 5,363 cases in the European Court of Human Rights over a purge carried out by the Turkish government in response to July’s coup, according to the president of the court, Guido Raimondi . At a press conference on Thursday, Raimondi said that the number of cases from Turkey had dramatically increased [...]
The Slovenian parliament passed amendments to the Aliens Act to enact emergency measures to deny refugees entry into the country and to expel those whom did not have their asylum claims properly assessed on Wednesday. Amnesty International (AI) reported that refugees are entitled the protections being stripped by these amendments under international and EU law. [...]
