Hong Kong high court disqualifies lawmakers for improper swearing-in of oaths of office
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal voided the oaths of office of four opposition lawmakers on Friday and removed them from the legislature. Among the four disqualified lawmakers were 24-year-old Nathan Law, leader of the...
Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into human rights violations carried out against civilians by special forces while fighting the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul. The allegations were initially reported by...
The Canadian Province of Ontario announced Monday that it will begin a trial program for universal basic income this summer. The Ontario government said that it will test the policy on roughly 4,000 participants....
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday awarded symbolic reparations for the victims of a deadly 2003 attack by forces under the control of Germain Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ICC Trial...
JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming "repeal and replace" strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring...
JURIST Guest Columnist Professor John B. Quigley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law argues that international changes to approaching and monitoring Iran's nuclear program have made recent congressional action unnecessary... The Iran Sanctions Extension Act was adopted...
A court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, sentenced 11 people to life in prison Friday for the murder of 69 Muslims during religious riots in 2002. Over the course of the riots, which lasted for days, nearly 1,000 people were killed. A...
The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, India, convicted 24 individuals on Thursday of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. The riots, which...
US President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Vietnam Tuesday pressing the government on human rights concerns in the nation. Stating that he was not intending to single any one nation out, Obama commended Vietnam on...
Mexico government hampered probe into missing students: report
A panel of experts released on Sunday its second and last report on its inquiry into the 43 undergraduate students from a teachers college in Ayotzinapa who went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico in 2014, stating...
