Judge Royce Lamberth from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held on Wednesday Wanda Patten, warden of the District of Columbia Jail, and Quincy Booth, director of the DC Department of Corrections, in civil contempt of court for failing to produce medical documents for Christopher Worrell, a member of far-right Proud [...]
The UN Human Rights Office, represented by spokesperson Marta Hurtado, deemed on Tuesday that Libyan security forces had used “unnecessary and disproportionate” force to detain African migrants when those that had attempted to escape were fatally shot. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) requested an inquiry into the violence perpetrated by [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law graduate in northeast Afghanistan reports on local conditions for women under the Taliban. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and [...]
Over 100 countries adopted the Kunming Declaration on Wednesday at the first part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The declaration aims to reverse the present loss of biodiversity around the world and to implement a path recovery by 2030. The declaration highlighted the [...]
The government of India on Tuesday brought in new rules increasing the gestational limit for abortion from 20 weeks to 24 weeks for certain categories of women. The rules come under Section 6 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act). The Parliament had amended the MTP Act in March 2021 and increased the [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The announcement explained that the inquiry will focus on whether Texas provides juveniles in these youth detention facilities reasonable protection from sexual and physical [...]
Austrian environmental group AllRise announced that it filed an official complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday accusing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of “crimes against humanity” for his role in the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The group also launched its “The Planet Vs Bolsanaro” campaign across social media following the filing of [...]
On Wednesday the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in US v. Tsarnaev, a case involving Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, accompanied by his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was convicted of planting pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013 and sentenced to death. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned Tsarnaev’s death penalty sentence, [...]
The Court of Appeal of the State of California has upheld a decision striking down a Monterey County order banning “land use in support of” fracking practices in oil and gas development. The appeals court stated that “Measure Z”, which introduced the impugned land-use policies, was preempted by state law. Section 3106 of the California Public [...]
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said Monday they were unable to rule on a complaint made by young activists calling on it to address the causal link between member states’ inaction on climate change and violations of children’s rights. The complaint was first filed in 2019 by 15 activists aged 8-17 [...]
