UN experts on Tuesday concluded that a Russian woman suffered gender-based discrimination when she was denied employment at the helm of a boat. Svetlana Medvedeva was selected by a private company after graduating as a navigation officer to work at the helm of a boat in 2012. She was rejected from the position because it [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director Kenneth Roth on Tuesday expressed concern over the EU Joint Action Plan with Turkey, urging EU leaders to reject proposed elements due their “disturbing disregard for international law covering the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.” Roth’s letter comes after Nils Muiznieks , the Council of Europe commissioner [...]
A conference of religious groups and political parties convened by the Jamaat-e-Islami party asked the Pakistani government on Tuesday to retract a new “un-Islamic” law that provides protections for female victims of abuse. The Women’s Protection Act , passed last month in Punjab, establishes an abuse hotline, sets up shelter homes, provides for imprisonment for [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued a preliminary injunction on Monday blocking Arkansas from enforcing its abortion pill restrictions. Arkansas passed Act 577 in March 2015, requiring abortion pill providers to follow US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines and prescribing physicians to maintain a contract with [...]
The US House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a resolution denouncing the actions of the Islamic State (IS) as “genocide” and calling for the establishment of international and domestic tribunals by UN member states. The resolution stressed that attacks on religious and ethnic minorities have been conducted with the intent to eradicate, displace and [...]
Indiana activists on Monday delivered a petition to the Indiana statehouse urging Governor Mike Pence to not sign HB 1337 , which they claim places overly burdensome restrictions on abortions. The bill requires practitioners to get informed consent by telling pregnant women considering abortion about the availability of perinatal hospice care and the gender of [...]
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state broke the law by not detaining Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) order to do so. The court stated that the country’s failure to arrest the president was inconsistent with the state’s obligations and unlawful. [...]
German law firm TISAB on Monday filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen AG on behalf of investors alleging a breach of duty to the capital market. The €3.255 billion lawsuit was brought in a German multi-regional court in Brunswick. The law firm filed a motion for a model case to initiate KapMuG-proceedings for the claims presented, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Evan M. Meyers and Paul Geske of McGuire Law, PC discuss the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez and the implications of this decision… The US Supreme Court’s recent January 20, 2016 decision in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez is a landmark for class action practice. The Supreme Court [...]
A spokesperson for the Venice Commission, an advisory body within the Council of Europe , said Monday that the organization will investigate a new police surveillance law that was passed in Poland last December. The controversial law, passed by the ruling conservative party, would allow Polish police and secret service greater access to citizens’ Internet [...]
