Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for Meta to improve their protection of LGBTQ+ people on Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday. This new campaign follows an HRW report from 2023, which found that security forces in the Middle East and North Africa use social media platforms to gather evidence to prosecute them. A new campaign, titled [...]
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France top court upholds charges of crimes against humanity against manufacturing company
France’s highest court dismissed an appeal Tuesday from Lafarge, a French building materials manufacturer, seeking to drop charges of complicity in crimes against humanity. In 2017, Sherpa, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human rights, as well as 11 former employees, filed a complaint alleging that Lafarge had financed terrorist groups, endangered the lives of [...]
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly put a draft order before Parliament on Monday to declare Hizb ut-Tahrir a terrorist group under the Terrorism Act 2000, making it an offence to belong to the group. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamist political group that operates in 32 countries worldwide but is banned in several states, including Germany [...]
Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea: When Every Path Forward Entails Global Risk, Take the Long View
Author’s Note: The publication of this piece coincidentally aligns with the initiation of a direct military response by the US and UK against the Houthis in Yemen overnight on 12 January 2023. Rather than update the piece, we have decided to publish it as-is. Everything below still stands – the Yemeni people deserve a considered, [...]
Human rights groups call upon US to better protect journalists and press freedom in Gaza
A group of international human rights organizations sent a letter to US President Joe Biden Wednesday calling for the US, one of Israel’s most vocal international allies and supplier of weapons, to facilitate stronger protections for journalists and freedom of the press in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas War. The letter, signed by the Committee to [...]
US Senator Bob Menendez files motion to dismiss corruption charges
US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) filed a motion on Wednesday asking US District Judge Sidney Stein to dismiss charges that he allegedly conspired to act as a foreign agent of Egypt. The motion to dismiss relates to an indictment filed in October that accused Menendez of supporting the interests of several businessmen and the Egyptian [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested and charged Karrem Nasr, an American citizen residing in Egypt since July 2023, for attempting to provide support to al-Shabaab. Nasr, a resident of New Jersey, traveled to Kenya with the intent to join al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, following Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on October [...]
Palestinian Statehood and Demilitarization: A Falsifying Conjunction
“For by wise counsel, thou shalt make thy war.” Proverbs 24:6 Though one might think otherwise, there is no Palestinian state at present, nor has there ever been such a state in the past. Still, once the current Gaza War comes to an end – and whatever the tangible correlates of any war termination agreements [...]
Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries in this series constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. The 21st century is marked by globalization and Americanization, with transnational law under US [...]
Global dispatch: international reporting and views on Israel-Gaza conflict vary
In this first-of-its-kind JURIST “global dispatch” on a single topic, 15 law students and young lawyers from around the world, all of them JURIST correspondents from outside of Israel and Palestine, join together to offer a panoramic view of how the current Gaza conflict is unfolding in their countries and regions. Beyond the headlines, they [...]