Search Results for: 2015-02-20

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized their decision on Thursday to not allow the Texas prison officials to receive a shipment of lethal injection drugs that were originally seized in July 2015....

Amnesty International (AI) released its annual report on global use of the death penalty Tuesday, saying China continues to use the punishment more than any other country. The group says the exact number of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ali Khan discusses the potential deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, and international documents' and treaties' prohibition on state actions like deportation...Threats of deportations are evolving into a global phenomenon as nativism,...

Israel's Security Cabinet voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the first settlement in the West Bank in more than 20 years. The settlement will be constructed near the Palestinian city of Nablus and is intended to...

A group of a dozen US Senators introduced the "Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017" Thursday to expand sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile development, support for terrorism, transfers of conventional weapons, and human rights violations. The...

The efficiency of the Chinese court system has been improved by 20 percent since 2013, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced Monday. The court released two white papers on judicial reform and court...

JURIST Guest Columnist Valentina Azarova of the Centre for Global Public Law of Ko&ccedil University, Istanbul, discusses the implications of Security Council Resolution 2334 on the Israel-Palestine conflict...The US decision not to veto Security Council Resolution 2334 (SCR 2334 or...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement Monday calling for an "immediate halt" to "widespread human rights violations" allegedly committed by government officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) . Zeid...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that Moroccan authorities have been on a two-year campaign to obstruct Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) , the country's largest independent human rights organization. According to HRW,...

US Republican senators announced on Sunday that they are planning to introduce a bill further sanctioning Iran for testing ballistic missiles and attempting to "destabilize" the Middle East. Tehran recently increased international tensions after testing ballistic missiles...