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2 days ago · The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday urgently called on companies worldwide to intensify efforts to prevent forced labour, a pervasive issue that continues to effect approximately 27.6 million individuals, including 3.3 million children, highlighting the urgent need for action across economic sectors and nations.
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Jan 2, 2025 · On January 5, 1909, Colombia recognized Panama as an independent nation. With support from the US, Panama had achieved de facto independence from Colombia in 1903. Panama had twice declared independence from Colombia before in 1830 and 1840 but was defeated each time and re-occupied by Colombian forces.
Trump’s Presidential Immunity Appeal: A Test for the Rule of Law …
2 days ago · On Sunday, January 5, President-elect Donald J. Trump filed an appeal seeking to stay criminal proceedings against him based on claims of Presidential immunity.This legal maneuver, just weeks before his scheduled inauguration on January 20, raises profound constitutional questions about the scope of Presidential immunity, its applicability to a President-elect, and its implications for the ...
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3 days ago · Five government critics in Angola arbitrarily imprisoned for over a year have been released, Amnesty International reported on Tuesday. Celebrating the release of the wrongfully detained critics, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Sarah Jackson, noted, “These five people should never have been locked up.
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Dec 16, 2024 · Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Wednesday morning I attended oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court for United States v.
Editorial: America’s Rule of Law in Crisis — A Warning and an …
Nov 4, 2024 · In the wake of a bitterly divisive election campaign, American citizens officially go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. This is the seventh US election that JURIST has covered since 2000, when for 36 days this university-based legal news non-profit, then not even five years old, chronicled the highs and lows of the recount that only ended when the US Supreme Court effectively stopped the ...
Editorial: US Supreme Court’s Contrived Immunity Decision
Jul 11, 2024 · In its inaugural intervention, JURIST’s Editorial Board breaks its traditional silence on critical issues in legal news to highlight the perils of the US Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity decision and the danger it poses to the rule of law in the United States...
Rule of Law Chronicles: Government Abuse of Power
Apr 22, 2023 · This article is the second in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens before the law.
The Erosion of Respect for the Rule of Law in America
Oct 29, 2024 · On January 6, 1649, the Parliament of England voted to put Charles I on trial for high treason following the English Civil War. Prior to the vote, a group of soldiers purged Parliament of Members they believed would vote in the …
Rule of Law Chronicles: In America, the Kids Are Not Alright
Sep 7, 2023 · This article is the fourth in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens before the law.