UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein expressed concern Monday about “an alarming upsurge in arrests, detention and killings” that have been occurring in Burundi since the beginning of September. Zeid said that many bodies have been found bound with their hands behind their back in the streets of Bujumbura with marks [...]
The Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation Monday of former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn , following accusations that the company cheated on government emissions tests by manipulating exhaust valves. The investigation will focus on determining who was responsible for the cheating scandal, but no further information was released. The manipulations were done on [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University discusses the significance of the outcome of Wollschlaeger II and its impact on the public’s health… Without question significant access to guns and ammunition implicates major public health risks. There were 33,636 gun-related deaths and tens of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law discusses the latest cyber security agreement between China and the US… It is a longstanding fiction that the Chinese word for “crisis” is composed of elements that signify “danger” and “opportunity.” Nevertheless, in the realm of science fiction writing, author William Gibson coined the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Karla McKanders of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Law discusses the European refugee crisis… “They are people in genuine need of our protection. There is no wall you would not climb, no sea you would not cross if you are fleeing violence and terror. I believe we have a moral [...]
Attorneys for a Maryland transgender inmate said Thursday that their client had won relief under the Prison Rape Elimination Act , marking the first such successful challenge. The inmate, Sandy Brown, claimed that guards called her “it” and “some kind of animal” while encouraging her to kill herself. Brown was segregated form the rest of [...]
France’s government on Sunday announced that it has launched its first airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The attack targeted an IS training camp in order to prevent attacks against French interests in Syria and also to protect Syrian civilians. Up until this point, France had only attacked IS targets in the neighboring [...]
Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the Department of Justice , announced on Thursday, that the Department of Justice will fund a 44 million dollar grant to fight human trafficking me. The funds will support the actual fight against human trafficking, support victims, and expand research for human trafficking. One of the grants is 23 million [...]
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to broaden police authority to search vehicles without a warrant based on probable cause. The ruling, which was decided 5-2, was praised by the state attorney general and others as good for effective law enforcement, but others believe it intrudes on basic civil liberties. The case stems [...]
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Friday announced a new plea to raise $14 million in an effort to support the many children migrating to Europe from war-torn Middle Eastern nations. Over the last half-year, one quarter of European migrants have been children, totaling approximately 133,000 youths. On UNICEF efforts, Marie-Pierre Poirier, Special Coordinator [...]
