UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed “serious concern” at the recent adoption of security measures by several European countries by joint agreement . The measures were adopted at a recent meeting between police heads from Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Zeid fears [...]
A judge for the Vancouver Federal Court ruled Wednesday that medical marijuana patients have a constitutional right to grow their own cannabis, striking down a ban introduced by Canada’s previous Conservative government. The case came to court when a group of British Columbia residents sued the Canadian government in 2013 arguing that the disputed law [...]
The Indiana Senate on Wednesday released a bill from committee that would ban abortions based on genetic disabilities and would also require aborted or miscarried fetuses to be cremated or interred. The Senate Health and Provider Services Committee voted 6-3 for the bill, which will now head to the Senate floor. The bill addresses situations [...]
The UN released a report on Thursday detailing a “litany of violations and abuses” being committed by both state and non-state actors in the current Libyan conflict that may amount to war crimes. The report , compiled by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , found that atrocities such as sexual assault, [...]
A New Mexico federal judge on Tuesday approved an almost $1 billion settlement between the Obama administration and Native American tribes, attorneys for the tribes learned Wednesday. The tribes claimed that the US government had for decades underfunded contract costs for tribes to manage federal services such as education and law enforcement, even as far [...]
The Hungary government on Wednesday announced it will hold a referendum to determine if the country will accept the EU migrant quota. Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the referendum and stressed that the EU migrant quota should be addressed by the representatives of the Hungarian people. In the announcement, Orban stated, “e feel that to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Louisiana may enforce an abortion law from 2014 which critics say will result in the closing of most of the state’s abortion clinics. The law, which was temporarily blocked by a lower court in January, requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel J. Wright of The Law Office of Daniel Wright discusses the need to revisit life without parole sentencing in the US justice system… “No one truly knows a nation,” Nelson Mandela wrote, “until one has been inside its jails.” The story of America’s jails and prisons is a sad reflection: dirty, [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in cases dealing with fixed-rate contracts with an energy provider. The court consolidated a pair of cases, Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing and CPV Maryland, LLC v. Talen Energy Marketing , concerning whether the state of Maryland usurped the authority of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) [...]
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday acknowledged the outcome of a failed constitutional referendum that would have permitted him to remain in power for a fourth consecutive term. Voting on the referendum took place last Sunday, and following a two-day count of the votes, the nation’s electoral commission ruled the proposal was rejected by a [...]
