Interpol agents on Thursday announced the arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, who had a USD $5 million bounty . Ntaganzwa, who was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape and sexual violence, was apprehended in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is accused [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary S. Holland from the New York University School of Law discusses the legality of censoring speech on vaccines and autism… In a recent guest column, Professors James G. Hodge, Jr. and Doug Campos-Outcalt explore ways to limit presidential candidates’ speech about a link between vaccines and autism. Noting recent comments by [...]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the decisions on how to do so. The Every Student Succeeds Act revises the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind [...]
The European Commission on Thursday initiated an infringement action against Hungary’s new asylum law and the country’s response to the refugee situation. Hungary recently erected a fence along its border to keep migrants from crossing into the country. The government has also rejected and fought against Germany’s plan that requires all EU states to take [...]
Maurice Tomlinson, a Jamaican human rights activist, on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of Jamaica’s Offences Against the Person Act of 1864 , which criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between men, in the Supreme Court of Jamaica . The complaint alleges that sections 76, 77 and 79 of the law violate provisions of Jamaica’s Charter of Fundamental [...]
Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina was formally charged by prosecutors on Wednesday following the investigation into the corruption scandal that led to his resignation. Prosecutor Francisco Sandoval said that Pérez Molina is suspected of illicit association, customs fraud and bribery. Pérez Molina was jailed pending investigation in September following an indictment over corruption charges. [...]
A group of same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a North Carolina law that permits magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six plaintiffs who seek to overturn North Carolina SB 2 , which permits public officials to recuse themselves from duties associated [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the use of racial preference in undergraduate university admissions. In Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin the court must decide whether the University of Texas at Austin (UT) may continue considering race as part of its admission criteria. The US Court of Appeals for the [...]
The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil on Wednesday suspended impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff until the court can determine the constitutional validity of a secret ballot. The vote is to determine whether the congressional committee appointed to carry out the impeachment is stacked with members seeking to oust Rousseff. A decision is expected by [...]
Although hostilities have significantly declined in Ukraine, “serious human rights concerns persist,” the UN said Wednesday in a new report . The UN attributes this decrease in hostility to the August 26 ceasefire , as certain weapons were withdrawn. However, civilians are still reportedly at risk in the conflict. The UN outlined human rights concerns [...]
