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This year, India’s Supreme Court freed millions of gay Indians from the fear of being imprisoned. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the Supreme Court there upheld the right of freedom of expression even as the territory is increasingly silenced by China.
And that was just in September.
These cases (...)
How a Left position regarding the Catalonia referendum on 1 Oct 2017 could present itself juridically and politically.
The Catalonia referendum this Sunday will become part of the history of Europe, possibly for the worst of reasons. I will not discuss here the substantive questions, which can (...)
On 12th December the trial of Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin – the two whistleblowers and the journalist who brought the Luxleaks scandal out into the open— opened again in Luxembourg. In June 2016, Edouard Perrin was acquitted but the Office of the Public Prosecutor of (...)
SUZI WEISSMAN: The failure to find probable cause to indict the Staten Island cop who was caught on video choking an unresisting detainee (Eric Garner) to death has led to outrage and large protests around the country. Following so closely on the Ferguson Grand Jury non-indictment, the question (...)
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
Over the past several decades, multinational corporate Goliaths have helped to write and rewrite hundreds of rules skewing tax, trade, investment and other policies in their favor. The extraordinary damage (...)
Sarmad Ali Advocate High Court
LLB (HONS)-England
LLM in Commercial Law-England
Whatever is now happening in Karachi or elsewhere in Pakistan; it can’t afford to opt medieval concept of retributive dispensation. The last PPP led coalition government suspended the capital punishment in 2008 (...)
The UK immigration authorities are not permitted to detain victims of torture. But what is torture? A human rights worker reflects on a recent high court judgement.
Last month in the high court in London, in a case described by the judge as ’disturbing’, four people were found to have been (...)
WE have spent our careers as filmmakers making the case that the news media in the United States often fail to inform Americans about the uglier actions of our own government. We therefore have been deeply grateful for the accomplishments of WikiLeaks, and applaud Ecuador’s decision to grant (...)
Press conference with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño Aroca. Update August 17, 2012: The the Ecuador Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released an English version of their statement on Julian Assange’s asylum.
The text below is translated from the official Spanish transcript of today’s press (...)
Women Living Under Muslim Laws, the Violence is not our Culture Campaign, and Justice for Iran are pleased to announce the release of a new publication: Mapping Stoning in Muslim Contexts. This report locates where the punishment of stoning is still in practice, either through judicial (...)
While the politically manipulated controversy over the proposed Islamic center in Lower Manhattan will eventually end, there is one dispute over religious symbolism and identity that remains, apparently, endless. I’m referring to the continuing effort by state and local governments to post the (...)
ARIZONA GOVERNOR Jan Brewer is quick to blame the federal government for the economic and social ills of her state. Responding to a growing movement to boycott Arizona for its new “show me your papers” law (signed by her on April 23 and to become effective July 29) as “thoughtless and harmful,” (...)
Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
This January the U.S. Supreme Court issued a shattering ruling that will intensify corporate influence in our democracy to an unprecedented degree. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court (...)
What is stoning?
Stoning, or lapidation, refers to a method of execution in which an organized group throws stones or rocks at the person they wish to execute. Although it takes many different forms, stoning has been used throughout history and in many religious and cultural traditions as a (...)
Speech by Gita Sahgal at the rapply organised by One Law for All on 20 June 2010, at Downing Street to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism.
See: UK: Report from the ONE LAW FOR ALL rally Friends –this (...)
A new report by One Law for All has found Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals to be in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights. [[See report here: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/new-report-sharia-law-in-britain-a-threat-to-one-law-for-all-and-equal-rights]
The report (...)
Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights. Published by One Law for All, June 2010 © One Law for All 2010 – All rights reserved £5.00. ISBN number: 978-0-9566054-0-5
The One Law for All Campaign was launched on 10 December 2008, International Human Rights Day, to call on (...)
At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday. The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted.
The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments (...)
I am grateful for the opportunity to read and comment on Peter Danchin’s “Suspect Symbols: Value Pluralism as a Theory of Religious Freedom in International Law.” [See below] The tolerance that it advocates reflects a generally healthy human rights impulse. Hence, I wish that I could write a (...)
March 3, 2006
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WASHINGTON – As the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard from experts and a victim at a hearing today on the discriminatory impact of mandatory minimum sentences, the American Civil Liberties Union urged the body to (...)
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