The North Carolina legislature gave final approval on Wednesday to the Women and Children’s Protection Act of 2015 , which mandates a 72-hour waiting period for abortions after a woman has been informed by a physician of her options and the risks of the procedure, except in the case of a medical emergency. The House [...]
Judge Anwar Gabri of the Egyptian Court of Cassation ordered a retrial on Thursday for former president Hosni Mubarak regarding his complicity in the killings of hundreds of protestors in the 2011 demonstrations that ousted his regime. This order overturns his acquittal by Cairo’s Criminal Court last November, and he is set to stand trial [...]
A Muslim rights organization called Wednesday for a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of a Muslim man in Boston. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) made the request a day after 26-year-old Usaama Rahim was killed by police after having been under surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task Force . CAIR Director Jennifer Wicks [...]
The government of California on Wednesday agreed to a settlement that may lead to the state reinstating the use of its death chamber. Under the terms of the settlement the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will provide new regulatory standards for lethal injections after the US Supreme Court rules in Glossip v. Gross [...]
Interpol on Wednesday issued “wanted person alerts” for six men having ties to the ongoing FIFA scandal on charges including racketeering, money laundering and corruption. The alerts are a notice and warning that the men may be arrested in any country to which they travel. The six men include two senior officials and four corporate [...]
Around 8,000 Nigerian civilians have been killed since 2011 as a result of abuses by military forces, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday. The report attributes civilian deaths to torture, starvation, suffocation and executions by military forces at detention camps. AI’s Secretary General Salil Shetty said, “he previous Nigerian administration’s utterly callous ‘see no evil, hear [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Iberoamerican University in the Dominican Republic, discusses the constitutional questions the US Supreme Court justices are facing when deciding same sex marriage cases … The case for equal marriage is the case of Constitution, tradition and time. We witnessed during the oral arguments of Obergefell v. Hodges before [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist João Gonçalves of the Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Law discusses the advantages of VAT for an economic system… Europe may seem the worst class of students for the US to find for fiscal lessons, but as the necessity for a new revenue strengthens and a call for a tax reform, even [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stoyan Panov of the University College Freiburg briefly discusses the criminalization of crimes against humanity in Bulgaria … In early May 2015 a group of 12 MPs in Bulgaria proposed an amendment bill to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Bulgaria with the purpose to introduce domestic criminalization of crimes against [...]
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community continue to face discrimination and human rights abuses, according to a report from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released Tuesday. The commission found that while LGBT rights have increased since the UN’s first study found widespread discrimination and violence [...]
