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Following Russia’s official invasion of Ukraine Thursday, the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on the parties involved to protect civilians and critical infrastructure in accordance with the international rules of war. ICRC President Peter Maurer asked the parties to do everything possible to avoid escalating a conflict that will most [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for some three weeks. Here, 1L Mélanie Cantin reports.  The Confederate flag and Nazi swastika were spotted on the first weekend the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, but casual onlookers [...]

Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, reports from Kyiv. US Secretary of State Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Geneva Friday to discuss the growing threat [...]

The European Commission voted Friday to refer Romania back to the Court of Justice of the European Union, alleging that Romania had failed to fully comply with a 2018 Court of Justice judgment ordering Romania to fulfill its obligations under the Landfill Directive. The Commission has stated that Romania may face penalties for the time elapsed from [...]

The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) imposed a series of sanctions on three Bulgarian individuals and sixty-four companies for their extensive role in endemic grand corruption in Bulgaria on 2 June 2021. This is the largest corruption-related targeting to date under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The sanctions [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in the joint case of two Romanian escapees extradited from France in 2016, finding that the extradition of one man had been in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, but not of the other. Both applicants had sought to challenge France’s execution of European arrest [...]

The Civil Liberties Union for Europe published a report on Tuesday detailing the negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on democracy and the rule of law in 14 countries in Europe and providing recommendations for the EU. The report detailed major infringements such as: Restrictions on media freedom and political pressure on the [...]

Supporters of the imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny held large demonstrations across Russia over the weekend in a series of mass protests that the police deemed illegal. Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s lead political opponents was evacuated to Germany last August where he was treated after being attacked with what Western nations believe to be [...]

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has approved legislation designed to “prevent and combat” hate crimes against the Roma community. The legislation targets “verbal or physical manifestations” of hatred against the Roma community. It provides a range of offences, including Article 6, which states that those found guilty of “initiating or constituting” an anti-Roma organization will face [...]

In a majority decision, the Constitutional Court of Romania has struck down a legislative amendment that effectively banned the subject of gender studies in university education as unconstitutional. Article 7(1)(e) of the impugned amendment was introduced earlier this year to amend Article 7 of the National Education Law No. 1/2011. The amendment prohibited any discussion in [...]