The UK government imposed sanctions Monday on four individuals held responsible for serious human rights abuses during Sri Lanka’s civil war. The 26-year conflict, which ended in May 2009, claimed an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 lives according to UN figures, with an estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians killed during the final stages of the war. The [...]
Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a 2L Single JD student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Ontario. As President Trump’s Canadian tariffs take effect, students in the University of Windsor and Detroit Mercy Law School’s Dual JD program find themselves unexpectedly on the front lines of international trade policy. Trump’s controversial executive order, imposing [...]
Haitian police conducted a large-scale operation on Saturday in the Lower Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, targeting the stronghold of powerful gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, widely known as “Barbecue.” Chérizier leads Viv Ansanm (Live Together), a powerful coalition of gangs that controls significant portions of the capital city. Several gang members were reportedly killed during the [...]
Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at the University of Windsor and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler turned himself in to Montreal police for arrest at 9:30 am Thursday on multiple charges, initially for social media posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict and subsequently [...]
An Ontario provincial court on Tuesday issued an interim interlocutory injunction against a group of pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Toronto’s Front Campus and King’s College Circle. The order, granted by Justice Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, mandates the removal of all structures and personal property from these areas by 6 [...]
Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at Vermont Law & Graduate School and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. On Saturday May 11 Pitasanna participated in Day 10 of the student-led encampment calling for the University of Toronto to divest from funding Israeli institutions allegedly involved in sustaining the [...]
The pending deportation of British Columbia, Canada climate activist Zain Haq, scheduled for last Sunday, was called off last week, according to his lawyer Randall Cohn. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) contacted Haq to confirm he would not face a removal order. Haq’s upbringing was in Pakistan before he arrived in Canada on a [...]
The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Bill 4156 on Thursday by a vote of 77-20, which proposes the creation of the criminal act of impermissible occupation, targeting individuals who willfully enter and remain in Oklahoma without legal authorization to be in the United States. Under the provisions of HB 4156, impermissible occupation is defined as [...]
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed new sanctions Friday on multiple entities that back extremist settlers in the West Bank, including the Mount Hebron Fund and Shlom Asiraich. These sanctions were a response to both the Mount Hebron Fund and Asiraich’s involvement in fundraising campaigns for violent extremists Yinon [...]
Haiti’s government officially established a nine-member transitional presidential council on Friday, aiming to restore security in the gang-afflicted Caribbean nation. This development marks a crucial step towards addressing Haiti’s security crisis. The creation of the council comes amidst escalating gang violence, prompting mass displacements and severe shortages of essential goods. A report released by a [...]
