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    Jurist Former Venezuelan President Maduro and wife move to dismiss drug trafficking indictment on sovereign immunity grounds

    Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, filed separate motions Wednesday in the Manhattan federal court seeking dismissal of the charges against them. Maduro argues that he remained Venezuela’s head of state for immunity purposes, notwithstanding the United States’...
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    Jurist UN warns mounting death toll and concern for women and girls in Nepal floods

    The United Nations warned Tuesday that Nepal’s catastrophic flash floods had killed more than 1,000 people, while thousands remained missing and women and girls faced mounting shortages of food, safe water, healthcare and protection. Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the...
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    Jurist UN finds decades of war leave Afghan victims without justice or redress

    The UN on Tuesday has released a report detailing how decades of war in Afghanistan have left civilians dealing with lasting psychological, physical, and economic harm, which has since been compounded by a lack of access to justice, compensation and other forms of redress. The UN Assistance...
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    Jurist Amnesty International warns EU migrant return hub plans risk human rights abuses in Rwanda and Uganda

    Amnesty International warned Wednesday that plans by five European Union governments for migrant return hubs in Rwanda and Uganda risk becoming what it called “cruel black holes for human rights”, two days before the governments meet to review progress on the plans. In commenting on the human...
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    Jurist Amnesty International calls for protection of Angolan women and children fleeing drought and climate change

    Amnesty International on Wednesday reported that Angolan individuals displaced by prolonged drought to Namibia face human rights abuses due to their lack of safe and legal status in the host country. Amnesty International released a report documenting the consequences of recurrent droughts in...
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    Jurist Human Rights Watch urges Chilean Congress to reject President Jose Antonio Kast’s constitutional overhaul

    Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called for the Chilean Congress to reject a proposed constitutional amendment addressing national security pushed by President José Antonio Kast, arguing that the measure which is aimed at eradicating organized crime, would undermine due process and human rights...
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    Jurist UN Committee holds states have legal duty to consider transatlantic slave trade reparations

    The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Monday stated that countries have a legal obligation to consider comprehensive reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and the continuing harm caused by racialized chattel slavery. In a general recommendation, the...
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    Jurist Amnesty International decries Belarus crackdown on EHU students abroad and their families

    Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the Belarusian authorities following reports of alleged persecution, intimidation and systematic targeting of students and affiliates of the European Humanities University (EHU), actions which the organization say constitute violations of the right to...
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    Jurist Venezuela National Assembly expands judicial nominations committee in step toward Supreme Court overhaul

    Venezuela’s National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a reform to the Organic Law of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice expanding the Judicial Nominations Committee from 21 to 23 members and granting civil society organizations a majority of seats, in what negotiators described as a...
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    Jurist Vanuatu sues France over Pacific Islands and Exclusive Economic Zone dispute

    The nation of Vanuatu on Monday filed an application with the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) against France, requesting that the court affirm its sovereignty over disputed islands in the South Pacific region and establish new boundaries between Vanuatu and the French territory of New...
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