The Cabinet of Israel on Sunday approved draft legislation that would official define Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. The controversial law, titled “Israel, the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” passed the Cabinet 14 votes to 6, and will now proceed to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset for a first reading next Monday. The [...]
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced a man to death for his role in killings during Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war . Mobarak Hossain was a former commander of a collaborators’ group of the Pakistani army. Hossian was convicted of killing 33 civilians in the eastern Bangladeshi district of Brahmanbaria. He was a member [...]
A military court in Thailand on Monday sentenced web editor Nut Rungwong to four-and-a-half years in jail for publishing an article five years ago that the court ruled defamed the nation’s king. Thailand’s lese-majeste law, which punishes people who defame, insult or threaten the monarchy, is one of the harshest in the world with jail [...]
UK Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday outlined the new Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill to combat ongoing national security threats. The bill will expand the power of authorities to suspend outgoing and incoming international travel of persons that are reasonably believed to be traveling to commit terrorism. The legislation will also broaden the Terrorism Prevention [...]
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of parliament , enabling an early election to see how the public views his struggling economic policies. Abe had called for the election to be held on December 14. He is seeking a new mandate for economic reforms and is delaying an increase in sales [...]
Human rights group ChildFund Alliance (CFA) on Thursday issued a report addressing the current issues with international children’s rights commemorating the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child . The report, entitled “Small Voices, Big Dreams Survey,” recognizes the need and urges for additional human rights protections to be [...]
The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report stating that the Obama administration properly responded to the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The committee, which is led by Republicans, concluded that there was no failure of intelligence and no delay in sending a rescue team. In a [...]
A Swedish appeals court on Thursday upheld an arrest warrant to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about claims dealing with sexual assault. Assange has denied all the allegations behind the warrant and has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has lived since June of 2012. The Swedish appeals court issued a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dmytro Galagan, of VoxUkraine, discusses the ongoing natural gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia … On November 16, 2014, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine (Naftogaz) and OJSC Gazprom (Gazprom) informed that they had filed lawsuits against each other at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). Whereas Naftogaz seeks to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Walter Olson, of the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, discusses tribal rights and Indian burials and argues that Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has caused the effect opposite to what Congress actually intended … Does Congress really mean for the laws it passes to achieve the opposite of their [...]
