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13 Jul 2022, 3:34 pm by William Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
Russia’s Basmanny District Court of Moscow Wednesday arrested opposition politician Ilya Yashin over allegations that Yashin willfully spread misinformation about Russia’s military, a charge Yashin denies and human rights organizations call politically motivated. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 3:35 pm
Source: Crime & Justice News "Since Sept. 11, the number of spying warrants approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has more than doubled; at the same time, the number of criminal indictments against people associated with Islamist extremist groups has dropped by more than half, according to the group Human Rights First. [read post]
20 Aug 2022, 6:12 am by Just Security
Dodge (@ProfBillDodge) The post Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (August 13-19) appeared first on Just Security. [read post]
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Monday calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations (UN) to assist their armed forces in adhering to International Humanitarian Law and ensuring basic human rights for Russian Civilians in the Kursk region, where the Ukrainian army has been conducting a counter-offense for three weeks now. [read post]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of communication devices across Lebanon and Syria violated customary international law. [read post]
McGill University’s student union announced Monday that its Board of Directors made a split decision to revoke the club status of the pro-Palestinian group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) after sustained pressure from the university administration and threats of funding cuts. [read post]
Russian advocacy organization and human rights monitor OVD-Info and Russian online media Mediazona reported Sunday that 75 people in 17 cities were detained in connection with the “Noon Against Putin” protest, a movement organized by the Russian opposition calling for voters to cast their ballots against incumbent President Vladimir Putin at noon. [read post]
Human Rights Watch Researcher Tyler Mattiace announced Matus’s death on Monday. [read post]
The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday (ECHR) issued a last minute interim measure to potentially stop the planned Tuesday evening deportations of seven UK asylum-seekers to Rwanda. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 8:12 am by Lisa Stam
  The post New AODA Requirements Effective January 1, 2017 appeared first on Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada. [read post]
In a collective statement released on Friday, the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK) and Norway expressed deep concern about escalating violence and human rights abuses in Sudan, particularly in the troubled Darfur region. [read post]
In the fall of 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released an online resource to assist mobile health application developers in determining whether they need to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 11:35 am by Cassandra Maas
A United Nations Human Rights Council report released on Tuesday concluded that Syrian and Russian airstrikes on civilian infrastructure in Syria’s Idlib province amounted to war crimes. [read post]
Swiss Church Aid (HEKS), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Indonesian group WALHI are backing the lawsuit. [read post]
Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, a member of the Assam legislative assembly, Sunday wrote a letter seeking intervention by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following a series of violent attacks on the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh during the festival of Durga Puja. [read post]
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported that between October 25 and October 30, the SSSP imprisoned a minimum of 65 people for 15 days. [read post]
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday that there has been an increase in the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan after the Afghanistan Peace Negotiations began in September. [read post]
The rally, “Open the Gate For All”, was attended by opposition lawmakers and human rights organizations like Amnesty International Japan and Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan, all seeking to marshal support against the legislation currently under consideration in the Diet. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 11:05 am by Leanne Winkels
Human Rights Watch (HRW) filed a submission on Qatar with the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Monday in preparation for the committee’s upcoming meeting and review of Qatar’s progress. [read post]