Britain charges Barclays and top executives with fraud and conspiracy
Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged Barclays and four of its former executives on Tuesday with conspiracy to commit fraud and violation of the Companies Act of 1985 by providing unlawful financial assistance. The...
Report: Nepal politicians and army resistant to war crimes investigation
The International Center for Transitional Justice released a 50-page report Thursday addressing the reluctance of politicians and security forces to bring justice to tens of thousands of families who were gravely affected by the country's decade-long...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld the government bailout of American International Group (AIG) as lawful. The ruling came down in a denial of an appeal from Starr...
Trump signs order loosening rules on religious political speech
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday relaxing enforcement of rules prohibiting tax-exempt religious groups from engaging in certain kinds of political speech. An existing federal law called the Johnson Amendment prohibits tax-exempt religious...
The European Commission gave final warnings to Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK Wednesday for failing to address air pollution. The countries have repeatedly failed to meet the NO2 air pollution limits, as set by...
Amnesty: Malaysia imprisonment of Anwar Ibrahim symbolizes violation of human rights
According to an Amnesty International report (AI) on Friday, "the ongoing political persecution of Anwar Ibrahim is symbolic of Malaysia's crackdown on human rights." According to Josef Benedict, AI's Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Anwar...
Internal Relocation Alternative: Where Does the Human Rights Committee Stand?
JURIST Guest Kübra Berberoğlu, Oxford Human Rights Law Reporter (OxHRLR), discusses how, in the case of B.L. v. Australia, the HRC has made either a careless or a disappointing start in clarifying how it employs the internal relocation alternative...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday dismissed the complaints of two individuals who were found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing . The Belfast High Court had found that Liam Campbell...
South Africa's Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to allow government expropriation of land. The bill will serve to allow a government adjudicator to value a particular piece of land and then expropriate it for...
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that halted the enforcement of a provision of Washington, DC's strict gun laws. Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia stated...
