A group of South Dakota lawmakers on Tuesday presented a resolution to the US Supreme Court asking it to overturn its abortion rulings in such cases as Roe v. Wade . The lawmakers believe they have significant evidence that such rulings are doing significant harm to women. The resolution passed through both South Dakota’s House [...]
Thirty-two nations joined a statement read to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday regarding human rights concerns in Bahrain. The message, read by a representative of Switzerland, urged Bahrain to protect citizens’ freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression and to investigate reports of torture in prisons. Bahrain was also criticized for lacking guarantees to [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) , along with three anonymous individuals, filed a complaint Monday alleging that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is violating their rights by sharing communications with the US National Security Agency (NSA) . The complaint alleges that GCHQ has been intercepting and storing communications from HRW and that these actions violate Articles [...]
A court in Toulouse, France, on Tuesday refused extradition requests for a Rwandan man facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Joseph Habyarimana allegedly incited the murder of monks when he worked in a monastery in 1994. Authorities accuse Habyarimana of identifying Tutsi monks to killers. The court stated it denied extradition because his [...]
A Kuwait court on Tuesday sentenced seven to death for their participation in the bombing of a Shiite mosque in June, which left 26 people dead and 227 others critically injured. Five of the men were sentenced in absentia as they remain fugitives. One of the men sentenced, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, was identified by the [...]
The Supreme Court of South Korea on Tuesday upheld a law that forbids an unfaithful spouse from filing for divorce. The 7-6 ruling was the result of a challenge to the law by a man seeking to divorce a wife he left 15 years ago for another woman. In affirming that “the spouse who is [...]
The Argentina Armed Forces has released documents revealing that Argentinian soldiers were tortured and abused by their superiors during the Falklands War in 1982. It is reported that many low level soldiers faced hash conditions such as being ill equipped and tortured by superiors. Soldiers reportedly endured mock executions andbeing placed in mass graves while [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday that Germany was entitled to cut of unemployment benefits to a Swedish family who migrated to the country and held temporary jobs. The case involved a Bosnian-born Swedish national who had three children born in Germany while working in the country temporarily during the late [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that copyright owners must consider “fair use” before demanding the removal of online materials. The fair use doctrine, composed of a four-part test , essentially permits use of copyrighted materials where the use in question is sufficiently transformative to have little to no [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Harrison Thorne of UCLA School of Law discusses the possible implications that a recent decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit might bear on internships … Employees are entitled to many benefits, including minimum wage, overtime wage, social security tax contributions, insurance (disability, unemployment), Family and Medical Leave [...]
