Egypt’s public prosecution office announced Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the dumping of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines along a water channel. More than 18,000 vaccine packages, originally bound for the city of Minya, south of Cairo, went missing. An additional 5,000 packages were lost because they had been stored at the [...]

The Supreme Court of Norway unanimously ruled Monday that the license for a Storheia and Roan wind power plant is invalid. The court determined that Sámi reindeer herders on the Fosen peninsula have a right to enjoy their own culture under Article 27 of the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several pieces of legislation on Friday that bolster California’s gun laws and provide additional protections for people dealing with domestic violence. AB 1057 allows law enforcement to seize ghost guns when the owner has a gun violence or domestic violence restraining order against them. Ghost guns are firearms that have [...]

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 lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent Taliban restrictions on music in public places. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s [...]

A report released Thursday states that the vicious cycle linking natural resource depletion and violence may have gone past the point of no return in some parts of planet, and will likely be exacerbated by climate change. The second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), released by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), [...]

The Supreme Court of India ruled Friday that if the fundamental right to education under “Article 21A of the Constitution has to become a reality,” then the needs of underprivileged children “to receive adequate access to online education cannot be denied.” The court passed the order while issuing notice in a special leave petition against [...]

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OPIC) of Canada published on Thursday the findings of its investigation into Alcanna Inc.’s retail liquor stores in Alberta. The investigation found that Alcanna’s use of ID scanning technology violated the Personal Information Protection Act of Alberta (PIPA) by collecting more than the reasonable extent of personal data. [...]

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday has temporarily reinstated Texas’ six-week abortion ban after a lower court had blocked the law just two days earlier. The controversial law was blocked by Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday after a complaint was filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Pitman found that the law would [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release on Friday warning of the possibility of an imminent attack by the Myanmar military against its opponents. In the release, OHCHR noted that there had been a build-up of heavy weapons and troops by the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar military, in [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 41, Genetic Information Privacy Act, into law on Wednesday, requiring direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to provide information and obtain consumers’ express consent regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data. “At-home DNA tests have provided people with the ability to seek meaningful connections to long-lost family or their [...]