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    Jurist Civil society questions Facebook for delaying India human rights impact assessment report

    A consortium of 25 civil society organisations Wednesday published a letter sent to Facebook on January 3 2021, against the delayed release of the India Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report and lack of action towards addressing grave concerns about the company’s human rights record in...
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    Jurist Austria lower house approves bill requiring mandatory vaccination

    The National Council of Austria Thursday passed a bill making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for all adults in the country. If approved by the upper house and signed into law by the President, the bill will come into force on February 1, making Austria the first European country to introduce a...
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    Jurist Frontex Agecny Chief calls for clarification on EU border control

    The chief of Frontex Friday called for the European Union to provide clearer rules on striking a balance between the human rights of asylum seekers and greater border protection. Frontex Border and Coastguard Agency which engages in border control, including preventing human trafficking and...
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    Jurist EU data supervisor calls for more transparent political advertising

    European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski Thursday called for additional restrictions on political advertising to be included in a group of new legislation adopted by the European Commission. The legislation concerned is the “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatch: ‘many families are now sending their children to the streets to work where most of them beg’

    Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul discusses the growing impact of the Afghan economic crisis on the country’s children. For privacy and security reasons, we are...
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    Jurist France parliament adopts resolution condemning China genocide of Uyghurs

    The French National Assembly Thursday adopted a resolution condemning Chinese political and humanitarian crimes against China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. The resolution calls on the French government to formalize its stance on the genocidal nature of the crisis, a position already taken by the...
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    Jurist Pakistan court sentences woman to death for blasphemy over WhatsApp messages

    A Pakistan sessions court in Rawalpindi Wednesday sentenced a Muslim woman to death for committing blasphemy by insulting Prophet Muhammad over WhatsApp messages. Aneeqa Atteeq was accused of sending blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and making remarks about holy personages on...
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    Jurist India top court pronounces reasons for upholding socioeconomic quota in university entrance exams

    The Supreme Court of India Thursday pronounced its reasons in a detailed judgement upholding a 29th July notification by the central government to implement a 27% quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and 10% quota for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in the pre-medical exam entrance...
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    Jurist Former Pope Benedict XVI accused of misconduct in 4 sexual abuse cases

    Former Pope Benedict XVI has been accused of mishandling four sexual abuse cases during his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977-1982, according to a report released Thursday. Benedict, now 94 years old, has long maintained his ignorance of the sexual abuse cases. The Catholic...
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    Jurist France Senate votes to ban wearing of religious symbols at sport events and swimming pools

    In the latest move as part of a controversial decade-long effort to curb the public expression of religion, the French Senate voted 160-143 Tuesday in favor of a bill seeking to amend its national Sports Code to ban athletes from wearing religious symbols, such as hijabs and burkinis, at sports...
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