China on Saturday announced sanctions against the chair and vice chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins, Canadian parliament member Michael Chong, and Canada’s House of Commons foreign affairs subcommittee on international human rights. These sanctions were in direct retaliation for sanctions imposed by the US, UK, Canada [...]

The US blocked Venezuela Friday from pursuing its dispute over US sanctions at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Biden administration does not recognize Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, due to claims of election manipulation and illegitimate presidency. Instead, the administration recognizes Juan Guaidó as the interim president. Throughout 2020, the US imposed [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Friday that public universities cannot compel professors to respect student pronoun preferences. Per the court, such speech is protected under the First Amendment, particularly if pronoun preferences go against a professor’s religious or philosophical beliefs. The case stemmed out of a dispute between Professor Nicholas [...]

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced new sanctions against UK institutions and individuals on Friday, following criticism of China’s behavior in the northwestern Xinjiang province and Western sanctions against party officials in the province. Earlier last week, the US, UK, Canada, and European Union sanctioned Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee of [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in the joint case of two Romanian escapees extradited from France in 2016, finding that the extradition of one man had been in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, but not of the other. Both applicants had sought to challenge France’s execution of European arrest [...]

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that keeping people in jail based solely on their inability to post bail is unconstitutional. The purpose of bail is to protect the public interest and to assure that those who are released from jail will return to court. However, the court found that it was not serving these functions [...]

The Research Commission on the French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide (Duclert Commission) on Friday submitted its report to French President Emmanuel Macron finding that the country bears responsibility due to its inaction, but was not complicit with the regime that perpetrated the genocide. Between April and July 1994, at least 800,000 [...]

The UK Supreme Court on Friday permitted shop floor workers of Asda, a major supermarket retailer in the UK, to compare their roles to the roles of their colleagues in distribution centres to claim equal pay. Asda’s shop floor workers, who are predominantly women, are seeking compensation for receiving less pay than their colleagues employed [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A true reign of terror descended on Myanmar Saturday as the country’s military junta killed over 100 of its citizens in their own streets and homes as military leaders ostentatiously marked “Armed Forces Day” with a mass parade and a dress dinner in the official capital, Nay Pyi Taw.  Loss of life [...]

A Texas district judge denied the Texas attorney general’s request for a temporary injunction against the city of Austin’s mask mandate on Friday. The denial is another setback for Ken Paxton, who filed suit against the city on March 11 for not complying with the governor’s order ending the state’s COVID-19 mask mandate. City and [...]