Eleven countries including Japan, Australia, and Canada signed a trade agreement Thursday known as The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) . The deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of the world’s largest trade agreements. The CPTPP serves as an update to the Trans-Pacific Partnership , [...]
President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . Trump says the tariffs’ main purposes are national security, as well as economic growth, and that they will take effect in 15 days, and continue until the tariffs are expressly reduced, modified or terminated. The [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Friday upheld the verdict of the Constitutional Bench which upheld the removal of life-support for individuals who are terminally ill or in incurable comas, otherwise known as passive euthanasia. The Supreme Court of India upheld the right to die with dignity as a fundamental right. The 538 page judgement [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Charles Lugosi of Crease Harman, LLP, discusses how Canadian prime ministers’ evasive answers during the Question Period expose deeper constitutional issues… All Canadian citizens, regardless of personal political preferences, are the heartbeat of parliamentary democracy. Together we vote to choose the political party that will exercise the powers of the executive [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday released his annual report concerning global human rights in which he criticized global politicians for acting to further their own political ambitions “at the expense of vulnerable humans.” Al Hussein began the report acknowledging the celebration for Nelson Mandela’s one-hundredth birthday and his [...]
The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday approved Bill 7026 , the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,” 67-50 in order to to provide stricter guidelines on firearms safety. The bill, approved by the Florida Senate on Monday, states that the intended purpose of the legislation is to, “reduce deaths and injuries as [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday struck down an employee termination based on the employee’s transgender identity, despite the employer’s strong religious beliefs. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursued the claim on behalf of Aimee Stephens, a former employee of Defendant-Appellant R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. . [...]
The UK’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday declined a request to force publication of Brexit economic impact studies. Following the referendum to leave the EU, British ministries compiled data and analyzed Brexit’s impact on 58 sectors of the economy. Some of the documents related to these studies were leaked in January. They show, overall, [...]
A bipartisan group of Argentine lawmakers proposed legislation on Tuesday allowing women, in their “exercise of the human right to health,” to voluntarily “interrupt” their pregnancy during the first 14 weeks. Titled “Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy,” the bill sets out the woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy in the first 14 weeks in the first [...]
The Knesset on Wednesday passed an amendment to its “Entry into Israel” law authorizing the minister of Interior to cancel the permanent residency status of individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities or committing acts constituting “breach of trust against the State of Israel.” The bill was a response to a ruling of the Israel [...]
