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The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office formally charged former President Álvaro Uribe with witness tampering and procedural fraud on Friday. This development occurred during the Accusation Hearing held in the 44th Penal Circuit Court of Bogotá. The hearing, presided over by Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, saw Uribe’s defense team’s request for nullification of the proceedings swiftly rejected. [...]

A bipartisan group of US senators signed a letter on Thursday encouraging Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to increase and accelerate defense spending in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The letter was written ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for July and was spearheaded by Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator [...]

One of the major global issues facing many nations in both the developing or developed categories is forced migration and displacement during crises. No matter which region, continent, or nation is the focus, every state, in addition to several other political players, has its own role to play in addressing this complex problem. Situational analysis [...]

The UN Security Council rejected on Monday a resolution drafted by Russia that urged countries to prevent the use of weapons in space. The resolution’s proclaimed purpose was to prevent an arms race in space and preserve space for exclusively peaceful purposes. With seven votes in favor, among them China, and seven against, the draft [...]

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,”  so taught civil rights campaigner and feminist Rita Mae Brown. There is no more fitting maxim for the broken American system that in 2024 has allowed Donald Trump to return as a major political party’s presumptive nominee for its highest office. [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including one for the killing of a US soldier in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr waived his right to appeal in 2010 when he pleaded guilty to murder charges. Despite a [...]

The government of Canada announced on Thursday that additional sanctions will be imposed on extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The sanctions will constitute a Canadian first of their kind. The sanctions will be implemented under the Canadian Special Economics Measures Act. The government said the need for these sanctions has amplified due to [...]

The Superior Court of Québec ruled on Wednesday against granting an interlocutory injunction brought by Canada’s McGill University to dismantle a pro-Palestine encampment on its campus. Justice Marc St-Pierre determined in his decision that the encampment’s presence was not sufficiently urgent to warrant an injunction, given the difficult issues of enjoyment of property and freedom [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at Vermont Law & Graduate School and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. On Saturday May 11 Pitasanna participated in Day 10 of the student-led encampment calling for the University of Toronto to divest from funding Israeli institutions allegedly involved in sustaining the [...]

A report released this week before the UK Parliament details how the Hong Kong authorities are using the reputations and prestige of overseas common law judges to draw a veil over their country’s deteriorating legal system. The report, issued by the Committee for the Freedom of Hong Kong presents a damning indictment on how the Chinese [...]