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Joshua Villanueva is a JURIST Assistant Editor and a 2L at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), He files this dispatch from San Francisco.  Beginning this weekend, world leaders will gather in San Francisco for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week, the largest international event this vibrant city will have witnessed since [...]

On August 21, 2023, Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv hosted a large international conference Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Justice to be Served. The conference gathered key figures behind Ukraine’s push to launch a special tribunal. The event was aimed at reinvigorating global efforts to prosecute the crime of aggression against Ukraine, [...]

On October 7th, 2023, the State of Israel was brutally attacked by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, instigating an all-out war. In the early morning of October 7th, Hamas terrorist fighters made their way into Israel from the Gaza Strip, invading and occupying Israeli towns, cities, and military bases. This surprise attack in Israel [...]

The United Nations Human Rights Office said in a new report on Tuesday that criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia are forcing hundreds of thousands of individuals into online criminal activity, including operating fraudulent investment schemes and facilitating unlawful gambling.  While the scale of internet-based fraud in Southeast Asia is difficult to estimate, the report offers [...]

Facebook’s parent company Meta has rejected the recommendation of its Oversight Board to suspend the Facebook account of former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for violating its policy on incitement. The decision stems from a January video in which Sen threatened his political opponents with violence, allegedly in violation of Facebook’s community standards.  In its [...]

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) released the provisional results of the county’s general elections on Tuesday, which recorded over 440,000 spoiled ballots. The Cambodian People’s Party declared a landslide victory last week, winning 120 of the 125 seats of the National Assembly. The party FUNCINPEC won the remaining five seats. Of the other 16 contesting [...]

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared a landslide victory in the country’s 7th general election on Sunday. According to the National Election Committee, 8.2 million voters, or 84.58 percent of all eligible voters, showed up at over 23,700 polling stations. Although another 17 parties were also taking part in the general election, the CPP [...]

Four officials from the Cambodian opposition Candlelight Party were arrested for spoiling ballots, inciting people to destroy ballots, and disturbing the peace during the recent Cambodia general election, Cambodian authorities also fined 17 other opposition activists and politicians and banned them from holding elected office for 20 years over similar charges. Those arrested include Ly [...]

The Ukrainian armed forces confirmed Thursday they received cluster munitions sent by the US. Tavria Region defense spokesman Valery Shershen confirmed the delivery to Radio Free Liberty in Ukraine amidst international condemnation of the US’s decision to provide the weapons. Following US President Joe Biden’s July 7 announcement that the US would provide Ukraine with [...]

Economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, a best selling author and director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, has long argued that Russia’s hostility toward Ukraine was provoked by the U.S. vis-à-vis pushes for NATO expansion, military interventions, and other forms of meddling. In an interview with JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Sachs [...]