Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission on Sunday on Sunday criticized the Mexican Attorney General’s Office and other government offices involved in the investigation of the “Missing 43” for failing to comply with its recommendations. The commission, a non-governmental organization with the mission of protecting or monitoring human rights in Mexico, had issued 26 observations and [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Monday began hearings in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who claims the British government assisted in his 2004 rendition by US forces. Belhaj and his wife were arrested in Bangkok in 2004 and returned to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, where he spent six years in prison. Belhaj first filed his [...]
Egyptian officials on Sunday arrested prominent human rights activist and journalist Hossam Bahgat after military officials questioned him concerning a report he wrote on the secret trial of former military officers . Bahgat, who writes for Mada Masr , was charged with “publishing false news that harms national interests and disseminating information that disturbs public [...]
JURIST guest columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law discusses the Children’s Bill of Rights… Earlier this month, three House Democrats in the US Congress introduced a resolution calling for the establishment of a Children’s Bill of Rights. But why? The US is already a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights [...]
The Parliament of Catalan on Monday approved a proposed resolution to begin separation from Spain. The measure passed with 72 votes in favor of the resolution and 63 against and established that the Parliament would have a “constituent process, citizen participation” and would “adopt the measures necessary to make effective” the provisions. The resolution also [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Ewelina Kemp of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law discusses the recent developments of Patent Law in the European Union… Fall 2015 appears to be a prominent time for European Patent Law. On September 30, 2015 Italy formally became the twenty sixth EU state member involved in the enhanced cooperation on [...]
Citizens of Myanmar on Sunday voted in the country’s first openly contested national election in 25 years. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, of the National League for Democracy (NLD), is expected to easily secure victory, although Suu Kyi is not allowed to assume the presidency. The election is a landmark event in a [...]
President Barack Obama on Friday announced that he has rejected a request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The president cited climate change as the primary reason in which he is not allowing construction of the pipeline, which was proposed to be nearly 1,200 miles long and would transport approximately [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown , on Friday, introduced a proposal for a single-drug execution process. The new protocol would replace the existing three-drug execution protocol. The state would be allowed to determine one of four drugs to use on a case by case basis including: amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital and thiopental. California has more than 700 [...]
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in seven cases where petitioners, religious non-profit institutions, challenge aspects of the birth control mandate under the health care reform laws in the US . The seven cases will be consolidated for oral argument, which is scheduled for March. The dispute centers around the birth control mandate [...]
