The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Tuesday strongly condemned the attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem. The Special Coordinator, Robert Serry, called on all sides to do everything possible to avoid further escalation. The attack Tuesday killed at least four people, including three Americans and one British man, all [...]
An independent UN human rights expert said Tuesday that Cambodia’s government is manipulating the judiciary to silence opposition . The Special Rapporteur in Cambodia , Surya Subedi, emphasized recent arrests followed by mass convictions for a July 15 ant-igovernment demonstration highlight a recurring theme of judiciary manipulation by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s administration. Members of [...]
Amnesty International (AI) issued a report on Tuesday discussing the “unprecedented clampdown on dissent” in the United Arab Emirates since 2011, with more than 100 political activists jailed or prosecuted for calling for political reforms. This report details some of the tactics widely used by the government to silence its alleged critics, which include lawyers, [...]
Lawsuits were filed in Massachusetts and North Carolina federal district courts against Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, arguing that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the country. The lawsuits contend that the US Supreme Court’s affirmative action efforts, beginning in the landmark Regents of the [...]
The US Supreme Court was asked Monday to review same-sex marriage cases from Kentucky and Michigan following a US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruling that upheld bans. Same-sex couples in both states states submitted petitions asking the high court to decide whether state same-sex marriage bans violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that Russian occupation in Crimea has led to serious human rights violations . In the 37-page report , titled “Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea,” HRW documented several cases of persecution of groups opposed to Russian occupation, the imposition of Russian citizenship on residents of Crimea, limitations imposed on [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Pardis Camarda, St. John’s University School of Law Class of 2015, is the author of the sixth article in a twelve-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Camarda discusses attractiveness discrimination within the Title VII protection against sex discrimination…In light of the 50th anniversary of [...]
An Egyptian court on Monday referred five students from Al-Azhar University to a military trial over a violent protest in January when part of a campus building was torched. The referral took place under a controversial new law passed last month, which expands the army’s powers to try civilians, placing all “public and vital facilities” [...]
Last week a law student was found guilty for a terrorism-related offense in the UK after a semi-secret trial. The Turkish-born student, Erol Incedal, was found guilty of possessing a bomb-making document that is likely useful to terrorists. Prosecutors sought to keep the trial secret on national security grounds, but a judge ruled that some [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two bankruptcy cases on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , consolidating them for one hour of oral argument. The two cases, Bank of America, NA v. Caulkett and Bank of America, NA v. Toledo-Cardona , both involve mortgage liens and [...]
