The Unsettling Ethics of Pakistan's Decision to Forcibly Return Afghan Families in Winter
Correction: This article has been amended to reflect the fact that Pakistan is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention. Pakistan cannot forcibly remove Afghan refugees residing in the country, as doing so would violate their right to non-refoulement and potentially expose them to harm. Asefa, an Afghan refugee living in Torkham port, fled [...]
Explainer: How EU Policy is Adapting to the Era of Supply Chain Due Diligence Regimes
On 23 February 2022, the European Union (EU) Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (Draft Directive). When the EU Commission opts for a Directive, in effect the EU is setting a goal that all member states must achieve, but how they get there legislatively is up to each state individually. In an [...]
UN chiefs report Yemen faces nearly 'catastrophic' hunger crisis
UN agency chiefs Monday said that war-torn Yemen’s hunger crisis is “teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe” with more than 17.4 million Yemenis facing food insecurity and an additional 1.6 million expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger. The number of people experiencing “catastrophic” levels of hunger is projected to increase five times [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jean-Marie Kamatali, of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, discusses the use and misuse of lèse-majesté...Despite increasing domestic and international pressure on Thailand to repeal or revise the provision of its criminal code on lèse-majesté, the...
JURIST Columnist Volha Samasiuk holds an LL.M. from the University of Arkansas School of Law and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. In the first entry of a two-part series, Samasiuk discusses the...
The Silver Lining in the International Harmonization of Food Standards
JURIST Guest Columnist Mirriam Kutha is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she is specializing in agricultural and food law. Here she discusses the benefits of international harmonization of food trade standards...It is not...
Corruption is leading to unequal distribution of land and resources, resulting in human rights violations, according to a working paper published Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Transparency International...
CANADA: Corporate Accountability for the Extractive Industry
Megan McKee, Pitt Law '12, is currently an intern with Montreal's Social Justice Committee (SJC). She writes about the SJC's advocacy for corporate accountability in the extractive industries... In May I began working for the Social Justice Committee (SJC) of...
The first legally binding international treaty aimed at combating ships involved in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been approved by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) governing Conference. The Agreement on Port...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced Tuesday that a group of 91 countries have reached an agreement on the final text of the first ever treaty to combat illegal fishing. The...
