New Zealand Human Rights Commission launches inquiry into national housing crisis
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission announced Sunday that it will hold a national inquiry into the country’s housing crisis. The Commission also released a framework that gives 21 guidelines on the right to a decent home in New Zealand. The Commission will use the framework in a national inquiry into the right to a decent [...]
Federal judge blocks exclusion of thousands of Georgia voters before runoff election
A US federal judge in Georgia Monday granted an emergency motion to block Georgia from excluding 4,185 voters from voting in the Georgia Senate runoff election. The voters were excluded based on findings that they were no longer living in Georgia. Judge Leslie Gardner of the US District Court for the Middle District of Georgia [...]
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed HB 2739 on Thursday, also known as the Our Choice, Our Care Act. The Attorneys General from 14states, led by...
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Welch of LWC Policy Consulting, Inc. discusses legislation regulating tobacco packaging in the international context, and related health and safety issues... A recent Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) decision in Singapore represents a major setback for...
The Uniform Code of Military Justice Has Never Had Anything To Do With Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Nathaniel R. Helms, author of No Time for Truth: The Marines, Justice, and the Haditha Incident, discusses the Haditha Incident and the military justice system ...Kenneth Englade recently offered his interpretation of the so-called Haditha Massacre, an...
D During his 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama began advocating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and holding civilian trials for detainees. Soon after his November 2008 election, reports revealed that Obama's advisers had already begun working...
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Friday appealed a federal judge's order blocking the enforcement of provisions of the state's voter registration laws. Abbott asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Friday issued a memorandum giving military chaplains permission to participate in or officiate same-sex marriage ceremonies. The memorandum, released by Under Secretary for Personnel and...
Commander of the rebel Mai Mai Cheka Lieutenant Colonel Sadoke Kokunda Mayele was arrested Tuesday by UN peacekeepers and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government forces for allegedly...
