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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Wednesday targeting individuals that contribute to Hamas operations and financing. In total, OFAC announced sanctions on ten individuals in Gaza, Sudan, Turkey, Algeria and Qatar for being members of Hamas, contributing to Hamas operations or facilitating financing for Hamas. The sanctions [...]

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous Tuesday called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to intervene in the Afghan women’s rights crisis. In a speech before the council, Bahous noted the deterioration of women’s rights in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Bahous made three recommendations to the UNSC including convening a dedicated session on the role [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that Taliban authorities are perpetrating gender persecution against women and girls in Afghanistan. Following the conclusion of the report, international justice director at HRW Elizabeth Evenson called for coordinated support by from the international community to ensure that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has the resources and needed cooperation [...]

Francesca P. Albanese is an international lawyer and scholar, renowned for her contributions addressing the question of Palestinian refugees, which constitutes the most enduring and complex refugee crisis following World War II. She has penned numerous publications and analyses on the issue. In 2020, she collaborated with Lex Takkenberg to co-author the second edition of [...]

Armenian state news agency Armenpress reported Friday that the country’s parliament will consider ratifying the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the treaty that established the ICC. Armenia signed the Rome Statute in October 1999 but has not ratified it. In 2004, Armenia’s Constitutional Court found that the Rome [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called for the application of universal jurisdiction against members of the Taliban accused of crimes under international law. Universal jurisdiction in this case would give any country the ability to prosecute Taliban members for violations of international law. Amnesty International said on the platform X (Twitter), “The new UNAMA report demonstrates an [...]

During a virtual UN conference Wednesday, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown called for the prosecution of Taliban leaders through proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the current “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan. Brown underscored the deprivation of education and employment for Afghan girls and women as profoundly grave transgressions against [...]

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)  released a statement Monday condemning the idea that the Taliban was “reformed.” The statement from multiple human rights experts drew attention to the gap between the promises made by the Taliban during its return to power in 2021 and the reality of “gender apartheid” in [...]

Two years ago this month, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, thus launching a regime defined by its systematic disregard for human rights. In 2020, amid a comprehensive PR campaign ahead of its latest rise to power, a Taliban spokesperson vowed in an op-ed published by The New York Times: “I am confident that, liberated [...]

Economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, a best selling author and director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, has long argued that Russia’s hostility toward Ukraine was provoked by the U.S. vis-à-vis pushes for NATO expansion, military interventions, and other forms of meddling. In an interview with JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Sachs [...]