JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge Jr. of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and Doug Campos-Outcalt of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix discuss the potential to legally limit anti-vaccination messages widely disseminated by political candidates… Heard enough about the potential for childhood vaccines to cause autism or [...]
Five Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the Department of Defense (DOD) announced Sunday. The Guantanamo Review Task Force (GRTF) unanimously approved for transfer four of the five detainees more than five years ago. At first, Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi , the fifth detainee, [...]
The US Supreme Court denied review in New Hampshire Right to Life v. Department of Health & Human Services on Monday. The anti-abortion group petitioned the court to clarify Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in order to get access to Planned Parenthood documents that dealt with a $1 million federal grant [...]
UN Special Rapporteurs Makarim Wibisono and Christof Heyns expressed concern Monday over ongoing violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel. This latest phase of conflict began in October and has claimed an estimated 15 Israeli and 80 Palestinian lives, with more casualties reported over the weekend . Although International law allows deadly force [...]
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a 37-page report on Monday calling on those with ground-level control to declare that recent acts by the Islamic State (IS) and other militants will not be tolerated and “to immediately take action to stop acts in breach of international human rights and humanitarian law” . The [...]
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was removed as a member of the country’s National Assembly on Monday, paving the way for his arrest in connection with a defamation case following his return from South Korea. The National Assembly’s standing committee approved Rainsy’s arrest concerning a “previously unenforced 2011 court decision,” which sentenced Rainsy to two [...]
A Bahraini court on Monday rejected the death sentence appeals of two men convicted in a 2014 bombing that killed three police officers. The court’s decision was announced by prosecutor Nayyaf Yusuf. The men, Hassan Mosa and Mohammed Ramadan, were among 12 convicted in the bombing . While one other defendant received the sentence of [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Sunday that Saudi Arabia’s new labor laws have helped to stop abuses of migrant workers, but the reforms fail to meet the needs of domestic workers. The 38 amendments went into effect last month. The Labor ministry has increased fines for employers that violate the new requirements, including forbidding employers [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday condemned the bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, as an “appalling disregard for human life.” The attack killed at least 41 people in the capital of Lebanon. The Islamic State (IS) has taken responsibility for the attack in which two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the predominantly Shi’a suburb of Burj [...]
Following significant criticism, Utah Juvenile Court judge Scott Johansen on Friday amended an earlier ruling to allow a same-sex couple to remain foster parents. Johansen had initially ruled against married women April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce on Tuesday, writing in his order, “he Court orders the Division to place the child with a duly married, [...]
