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3 Sep 2015, 8:01 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein [official profile] announced [press release] Thursday that UN workers were informed on August 30 that a teenage girl in the Central African Republic (CAR) [BBC backgrounder] was allegedly sexually abused by a French soldier last year. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 7:16 am
[JURIST] The Paris appeals court [official website, in French] Friday ordered accused "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel [BBC profile] held in custody while an investigation continues into $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades [AP timeline] he allegedly made while working for French bank Societe Generale [corporate website]. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 10:00 pm
A draft law, On ratification of the Specific Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the French Republic on Implementation of Cooperation in Combating Global Warming, was recently developed in Kazakhstan, representing a unique international treaty that will provide for significant preferences, derogations, and exemptions from the Kazakhstan legal regime for major projects in the field of renewable energy, including guarantees of stability of legislation. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 1:44 pm
[JURIST] A French court on Wednesday ordered Callixte Mbarushimana, the alleged leader of the rebel group the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], to face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] in The Hague. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 10:04 am
[JURIST] The French Commercial Tribunal [official website, in French] in Paris ruled Tuesday that Google Maps [corporate website] is anti-competitive because it is offered as a free service. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 1:22 pm
The opinion from Judge Hoeveler is available here. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 6:47 am
[JURIST] The French Cour de Cassation [official website, in French] held [judgment; press release, in French] Tuesday that same-sex marriages [JURIST news archive] are not valid under French law and that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 10:55 am
[JURIST] The French National Commission of Information Technology and Liberty (CNIL) [official website, in French] fined Google [corporate website] 100,000 euros (USD $141,300) on Monday for violating French data privacy laws [press release, in French] by capturing personal data through Google Street View cars, used for its Google Maps service. [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 11:02 am
[JURIST] The French Human Rights League and the Collective against Islamophobia [official websites] on Thursday joined over 100 organizations to issue a statement [petition, in French] asking the French government to lift the state of emergency. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 7:55 am
[JURIST] The French National Assembly [official website] voted Tuesday to delay a vote [debate text, in French; materials, in French] on a new version [text, in French] of a controversial Internet piracy law, past its original July 24 date. [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 2:56 am
The family of a flight attendant killed when AF447 crashed near the coast of Brazil on June 1st is seeking legal action against the airline. [read post]
9 Nov 2012, 7:00 am
Google has says that it is considering the idea of mediation to help end its “bitter row with French news media sites that want to make the US Internet giant pay to display links to their content. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 5:13 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] unanimously ruled [press release] Thursday that there was no human rights violation when a French school expelled two students for refusing to remove their headscarves [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 8:46 am
The ministers wrote they were doing away with "the prohibition of direct communication between the [bathrooms] and kitchens and living rooms" as part of "a process of simplification of regulations. [read post]
3 Mar 2025, 3:08 am
From NBC News: Amélie Lévêque remembers the moment when she finally understood the unexplained bouts of depression and other disorders that had tormented her for more than two decades. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 11:34 am
[JURIST] A French court of appeals Wednesday released two men accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide [BBC backgrounder], finding that the warrants issued for their arrest by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] could not be executed. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 3:04 pm
The most striking thing about this stage is the psychological battle that Contador has started waging on his opponents. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 3:06 pm
On Tuesday, WikiLeaks published five top secret documents definitively showing that the National Security Agency has been spying on French President François Hollande, and his two immediate predecessors, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Jacques Chirac, among other top officials. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 6:11 am
[JURIST] The League of Human Rights (LDH) [advocacy website, in French] on Thursday accused French authorities of improperly collecting DNA samples from Roma migrants [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 8:18 am
As reported in Time, last week French prosecutors began presenting evidence in the fraud trial of the Church of Scientology. [read post]
