JURIST EXCLUSIVE – We present an interview recorded Monday with one of our Myanmar law student correspondents (“Gen Z”), discussing the current situation in Myanmar, the military coup, the protests, internet blackouts, and her hopes for a return to democracy. The interviewer is JURIST staff editor Khushali Mahajan, a law student at Rajiv Gandhi National [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday upheld the conviction of Sasa Ćurčić, a former Bosnian Serb Army solider who served in the Dragan Nikolic Interventions Unit, for the rape of a woman in 1992 during the Bosnian War. The judgment in Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina v Sasa Ćurčić was released by [...]

Norway-based Telenor Group, an international telecommunications company with extensive operations in much of Europe and Asia, sharply criticized a cyber security bill proposed by the leaders of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup in a statement issued Monday. The bill, which is expected to be formally promulgated this week, has been decried by many rights groups [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday that an Arkansas law prohibiting state contracts with companies that refuse to pledge against boycotts on Israel is an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The 2017 law prevented contractors from signing deals with the state unless they agreed to abstain from [...]

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report Monday denouncing attacks on Afghan journalists, human rights activists and media workers. In September, peace negotiations began between Afghan officials and the Taliban to end the ongoing war in Afghanistan. In November, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called for [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of JURIST’s law student correspondents in Myanmar writes Monday: There will be an internet cut off from 1 am to 9 am. The internet is very slow too. I wonder if there’s anything we can do about it. It’s worrisome to find out everything only in the morning. With the help [...]

Canada launched an initiative Monday to stop countries from arbitrarily detaining foreign nationals for diplomatic gain. This initiative was endorsed by 58 countries and the EU. Arbitrary arrests and detentions violate international human rights law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Canada created a declaration, [...]

Hundreds of women’s rights activists and their supporters protested in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Friday to call for an end to violence and discrimination against women and the scrapping of a proposed law that would restrict foreign travel for many women. The point of contention is a proposed law that would require women under 40 [...]

Homeless advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Friday, challenging a rule that “target the manner in which homeless persons use the subway system.” New York advocacy organizations Urban Justice Center (Safety Net Project) and Picture the Homeless seek to block a rule that bans the use of large wheeled [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, on Friday urged the US, the EU and other states to lift unilateral sanctions imposed against Venezuela, claiming that they have only “exacerbated pre-existing calamities.” Douhan, who had been traveling around Venezuela for two weeks talking to “the widest range of people [...]