JURIST Guest Columnist Damian Ugwu, Executive Director of the Social Justice & Advocacy Initiative, says that the recent bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria has ominous implications for a broad range of individual rights in the country...On November 29, 2011,...
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UN expert supports Mexico right to food constitutional reform
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food , Olivier De Schutter , announced on Thursday that he supports a Mexican constitutional reform which recognizes the right to food . The reform targets articles 4 and...
The French National Assembly on Tuesday voted 293-222 to reject a bill seeking to legalize same-sex marriage . The Union for Popular Movement (UMP) , a conservative...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in 14 cases. In Smith v. Bayer Corp. the court will determine two issues. First the court will decide...
Administrative law judges facing increase in violent threats: report
Federal judges responsible for handling Social Security disability claims and immigration hearings are petitioning for increased security measures after data released Monday shows they have been the targets of numerous threats . According to the report released...
UK court allows appeal of terrorism charges based on torture claims
A London appeals court on Wednesday granted convicted terrorist Rangzieb Ahmed the right to appeal his conviction based on his claims of torture and recent reports of UK complicity in torture. Ahmed was convicted and sentenced to...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday summarily affirmed a lower court's ruling in Republican National Committee v. Federal Elections Commission , upholding a ban on the use of "soft...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a torture suit brought against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld by two...
Obama outlines measures taken following attempted Detroit plane bombing
US President Barack Obama on Monday announced steps the federal government is taking to address air travel security following the Friday attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He said...
Libya is making strides towards greater transparency and acknowledgment of human rights, but still has a long way to go, according to a report published Saturday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, entitled...