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    Jurist Ukraine Parliament ratifies Rome Statute of the ICC

    The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine voted on Wednesday to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, making Ukraine a state party. 281 deputies of the Rada voted for the bill while only one voted against it. The bill was introduced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on...
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    Jurist India Supreme Court rejects petition challenging constitutionality of caste system

    The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by Wazir Singh Poonia, contended that the caste system is unconstitutional and violates the fundamental rights...
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    Jurist US sanctions former Haiti president over drug trafficking charges

    The United States Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it has sanctioned Michel Joseph Martelly, the former president of Haiti, on drug trafficking charges. The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control had imposed these sanctions under Executive Order 14059, which targets...
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    Jurist Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan banned from entering country

    Taliban figures have banned United Nations Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett, from entering the country. Representatives of the regime told Afghanistan’s TOLO News that: Bennett, who was appointed to his mandate shortly after the fall of Kabul in 2022, called the decision to...
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    Jurist Ukraine parliament approves ban on religious organisations tied to Russia

    Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament, approved the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activities of Religious Organizations in Ukraine (No. 8371), which bans religious organisations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine on Tuesday. Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of the...
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    Jurist HRW: Burkina Faso military targets magistrates with unlawful forced conscription

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned on Wednesday Burkina Faso’s military authorities’ use of emergency law to unlawfully conscript magistrates who have opened legal proceedings against junta supporters. HRW has condemned the military’s actions as a blatant violation of the independence of the...
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    Jurist Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary

    A German court rejected an appeal against the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, on Tuesday. Furchner was employed as a stenographer in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof concentration camp located near the Polish city of Gdansk...
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    Jurist Philippines president announces investigation after former mayor flees country amid Chinese crime network allegations

    Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr promised on Wednesday that “heads will roll” as the government investigates how a former town mayor accused of ties with Chinese criminal syndicates fled the country, stating that “the departure of Alice Guo has laid bare the corruption that undermines...
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    Jurist Kenya Supreme Court stays judgement declaring 2023 Finance Act unconstitutional

    The Supreme Court of Kenya delivered a judgement on Tuesday issuing an order of a stay of execution of the ruling of the Court of Appeal which rendered the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional in its entirety. The seven-judge bench posited that the order was necessary due to public interest, among...
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    Jurist HRW and Amnesty International push EU to urge India to end human rights abuses

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called for the European Union (EU) to urge the government of India to end human rights abuses in a joint statement released Monday ahead of the EU-India Human Rights Dialogue. HRW and Amnesty International, alongside Front Line Defenders, the...
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