UN concerned over Taliban crackdown on women dress code violations in Afghanistan
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) voiced its apprehension on Thursday about the Taliban’s recent spike in the arbitrary arrest and detention of women and girls based on non-compliance with the Islamic dress code. Last week the Taliban arrested the first women in Afghanistan for “bad hijab” since they took power in August 2021. [...]
US Supreme Court to consider restricting access to widely used abortion drug
The US Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear two cases regarding access to the drug mifepristone, which is widely prescribed for abortions and miscarriages. The court previously allowed the drug to remain on the market while the cases wound their way through the appellate process in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth [...]
Analysis: Did NATO’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Inspire Vladimir Putin to Invade Ukraine?
In a recent interview on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, former French president, François Hollande established a direct link between NATO’s, and particularly the United States’, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. “If Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine, it was not due to a provocation from the Atlantic alliance . [...]
The filibuster debate has focused on whether the rule facilitates or stifles negotiation and compromise. Of course, the rule – that 60 votes are required to end debate – doesn’t do either. It’s the norms that those subject to the rule adopt that matter. When I was younger, it seemed, Congress adhered to a norm [...]
President Biden and North Korea: Deterrence, Not Denuclearization, Is America's Only Realistic Goal
“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.” – Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) During his March 25, 2021 press conference, US President Joe Biden declared “denuclearization” as America’s ultimate strategic goal for North Korea. Though such a declaration might first appear reasonable, it misrepresents what is plausible in [...]
Californians set to vote on repeal of affirmative action ban
California voters will render a verdict Tuesday on Proposition 16, a controversial ballot measure that would repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which says that the state cannot discriminate or grant preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education or contracting. When Prop 209 was first passed, it spurred a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Brown Keyder, the State University of New York at Binghamton, discusses IP laws in the US and EU... If any legal concepts may be said to characterize our age, intellectual property (IP) and secrecy would be...
After Fidel Castro's authoritarian regime took control of Cuba in 1959, the US responded in 1960 by imposing a trade embargo - a prohibition against commercial, financial and economic dealings with Cuba enforced over time by a minimum of six...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mohamed 'Arafa of Alexandria University (Egypt) and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, discusses the recent Egyptian criminal court's order of a retrial of Muslim Brotherhood followers and whether the Egyptian criminal justice system should...
Ukraine opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was released from prison Saturday when the Supreme Council of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada , voted to decriminalize the charges that had been brought against...
