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  1. Dadparvar

    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: ‘the situation here is worse than Kabul’

    JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law graduate in northeast Afghanistan reports on local conditions for women under the Taliban. For privacy and security reasons...
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    Jurist UN demands inquiry into Libya violence against detained migrants

    The UN Human Rights Office, represented by spokesperson Marta Hurtado, deemed on Tuesday that Libyan security forces had used “unnecessary and disproportionate” force to detain African migrants when those that had attempted to escape were fatally shot. The Office of the High Commissioner for...
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    Jurist Human rights group urges UK to repatriate women and children in Syria detention camps

    The Rights and Security International (RSI), a human rights advocacy group, published on Wednesday the second of two reports calling for the immediate repatriation of women and children held in the al Hol and Roj detention camps in northeast Syria. According to the RSI report, an estimated...
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    Jurist UN panel unable to rule on young activists’ climate case

    The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Monday they were unable to rule on a complaint made by young activists to address the causal link between member states’ inaction on climate change and violations of children’s rights. The complaint was first filed in 2019 by 15 activists...
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    Jurist ICJ rules in favor of Somalia in maritime border dispute

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday ruled in favor of Somalia in the dispute between Somalia and Kenya concerning the maritime border of the Indian Ocean. The top court ruled unanimously that there was no agreed maritime boundary between Somalia and...
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    Jurist India app developers file petition before competition regulator against new Google billing policy

    A group of Indian app developers and start-ups, the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), on Monday filed a petition before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Google’s new billing policy which is expected to come into effect in March 2022. ADIF has challenged Google’s new...
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    Jurist HRW report: Algeria authorities urged to drop efforts to dissolve prominent civil society group

    Five international rights groups are urging Algerian authorities to drop their effort to dissolve a prominent civil society group over alleged violation of the law on associations, Human Rights Watch stated in a report on Monday. The five rights organizations are Human Rights Watch, Amnesty...
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    Jurist Burkina Faso begins trial of former president’s assassins

    A military court in Burkina Faso began Monday the trial of 14 people, including prior president Blaise Compaore, accused of plotting the assassination of the country’s former president Thomas Sankara. The trial takes place 34 years after a hit squad gunned down Sankara is one of the most...
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    Jurist Tech group launches new effort to fight online misinformation in Australia

    A tech group backed by the Australian units of Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Monday announced the creation of a special committee to resolve complaints about misinformation posted on their websites. The Digital Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said that the new committee would oversee the group...
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    Jurist Norway Supreme Court rules for Sámi reindeer herders in wind power case

    The Supreme Court of Norway unanimously ruled Monday that the license for a Storheia and Roan wind power plant is invalid. The court determined that Sámi reindeer herders on the Fosen peninsula have a right to enjoy their own culture under Article 27 of the United Nations’ International Covenant...
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