What's new
New posts

Welcome

If you already have an account, please login, but if you don't have one yet, you are more than welcome to freely join the community of lawyers around the world..

Register Log in

Search results

  1. Dadparvar

    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: Taliban restructures government axing election commission and renaming human rights commission

    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 reports on the restructuring of the Afghan government involving removal or renaming of key bodies such as the Independent...
  2. Dadparvar

    Jurist Iraq Supreme Court ratifies October election results

    The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq Monday ratified October’s parliamentary elections. The ratification comes in the wake of challenges to the results from Shiite political groups. The election took place on October 10, 2021 to determine all 329 members of the Council of Representatives. The...
  3. Dadparvar

    Jurist India government declines foreign funding registration renewal to Mother Teresa’s charity

    India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Monday confirmed that it had refused to renew the foreign funding registration for Missionaries of Charity’s (MoC), a Catholic religious congregation set up by Saint Teresa of Calcutta, on grounds of adverse inputs in their application record. Registration...
  4. Dadparvar

    Jurist Russia blocks website of protest monitor OVD-Info group

    Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor Saturday blocked the website of prominent rights and protest monitoring group OVD-Info after a court decision, the group said in a statement. OVD-Info is an independent Russian human rights group that has documented anti-Kremlin protests for several years...
  5. Dadparvar

    Jurist Switzerland to allow simple gender identity change next year

    Beginning in the new year, people in Switzerland will be able to legally change their gender with only a visit to the civil registry office. The Swiss parliament passed amendments in 2020 to the civil code and the civil status ordinance that would allow people to change their first name and...
  6. Dadparvar

    Jurist Poland president vetos media law opposed by US

    Poland’s President Andrzej Duda vetoed a controversial media bill Monday that was criticized for targeting independent broadcaster TVN owned by Discovery, a US media giant. The bill requires that broadcasters operating in Poland be majority-owned by entities from the European Economic Area. The...
  7. Dadparvar

    Jurist UN rights expert calls for investigation of reported civilian killings in Myanmar

    The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths issued a statement Sunday calling Myanmar authorities to investigate an attack against civilians in Myanmar’s Kayah State on December 24, 2021. Griffiths confirmed that the reports of the...
  8. Dadparvar

    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: Taliban shoots and kills young civilian prompting protests in Panjshir province

    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 reports on the shooting death of a young civilian by Taliban forces and the protests, marked by anti-Taliban chants, that...
  9. Dadparvar

    Jurist The Gambia investigative commission recommends trial of ex-president Yahya Jammeh for human rights abuses

    In their final report released Friday, The Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) called for the persecution of former President Yahya Jammeh and co-perpetrators for 44 cases of murder, torture, and rape. The TRRC was established to investigate crimes committed in The...
  10. Dadparvar

    Jurist South Korea grants amnesty to former President Park Geun-hye

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in Friday announced that former President Park Geun-hye would be granted a special pardon from a 20-year prison sentence for bribery and corruption-related charges. Park, 69, is among 3,094 persons to be granted the special amnesty. South Korea’s Ministry of...
Top