JURIST Guest Columnist Fredrick Vars, of the University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the new Alabama Gun Control Law and argues that the state’s gun regulations will be largely unaffected by the new constitutional amendment… Alabama voters, on November 4, overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment providing that: every citizen has a fundamental right [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana ruled Wednesday Montana’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the order US District Court Judge Brian Morris stated that Montana was the last state in the Ninth Circuit to prohibit same-sex [...]
Ugandan politicians have drawn up new anti-gay legislation with cross-bench support to be presented before parliament by the end of the year, according to Thursday media reports. The new legislation comes nearly a year after the Ugandan parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act that would have sentenced homosexuals up to life in prison. The bill was [...]
The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Fatou Bensouda , said in an interview published Thursday that the ICC is contemplating bringing war crimes charges against Islamic State (IS) jihadist fighters. Bensouda pointed to credible reports of numerous foreign fighters from countries party to the ICC’s statute, all of whom can can [...]
Egyptian authorities on Thursday arrested a top Muslim Brotherhood member who played a key role in negotiations between the group and the Egyptian government. A security official said the arrest of Mohammed Ali Bishr was linked to a call for demonstrations at the end of the month. The demonstrations were called by hard-line Islamist group [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Thursday highlighting the continued commission of human rights violations in eastern Ukraine despite the announcement of a ceasefire on September 5. The report, produced by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine , spans from September 17 to October [...]
Advocate General Niilo Jaaskinen of the European Court of Justice issued an opinion Thursday endorsing an EU plan to cap bankers’ bonuses. The UK had challenged the cap, which restricts bonuses to 100 percent of banker’s pay or 200 percent with shareholder approval. The non-binding opinion rejected the UK government’s six legal and technical arguments [...]
The US Supreme Court refused a request to block same-sex marriages in South Carolina on Thursday, making it the thirty-fifth US state where same-sex marriage is legal. The lower court in South Carolina had lifted the state’s same-sex marriage ban earlier this month, and the Attorney General had asked the higher court to temporarily block [...]
Syrian refugees are facing human rights abuses and destitution as they flee into Turkey, Amnesty International (AI) said Thursday. The report , “Struggling to Survive: Refugees from Syria in Turkey,” addresses hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have faced live fire at the Turkish border and destitution inside Turkey, while the international community is [...]
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Wednesday warned against the possible release of convicted war criminal Milorad Trbic following the reversal of his sentence by the Bosnian Constitutional Court . Trbic was convicted in 2009 of committing genocide in Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian Civil War and was sentenced to 30 [...]
