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SCC dispatch: Canada’s top court questions the future of legal remedies for intimate partner violence
Daniel Kim, Tyler Li, Drew Meetze and Christine Yang are law students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. They filed this joint dispatch for JURIST from Ottawa.  We attended the courtroom at ...
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Argentina president faces impeachment calls following cryptocurrency debacle
Argentina's political opposition on Saturday called for Javier Milei to face an impeachment trial in the Chamber of Deputies following the recommendation of the President for a cryptocurrency which ...
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UN secretary-general calls for continued commitment to Gaza ceasefire deal
UN Secretary-General António Guterres' office issued a statement on Sunday welcoming the ongoing fulfillment of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, urging both parties to remain committed to its terms and ...
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Amnesty International demands truth and accountability one year after Russia activist Alexei Navalny’s death
Amnesty International condemned the Russian government on Sunday for its failure to answer questions about opposition politician Alexei Navalny's death on the first anniversary of the ...
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Human rights groups urge EU to engage with Bahrain authorities over release of two arbitrarily detained men
Friday, urging the European Union (EU) to engage with Bahraini authorities to secure the release of Danish-Bahraini Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and ...
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US Federal judge blocks Trump’s mass firings at consumer watchdog agency
US federal judge issued an order on Friday to halt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) sweeping employee firings, delivering an early blow to President Donald Trump's rapid push to ...
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Thousands of demonstrators in Serbia demand justice for Kragujevac railway disaster
Tens of thousands of students on Saturday protested in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, demanding justice for the victims of the November 2024 railway disaster. The protest, which lasted 15 hours and ...
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Committee to Protect Journalists urges Taliban to lift broadcast ban on political and economic content
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged the Taliban to lift its restrictive prohibition on the airing of political and economic programs by local Afghan media outlets on Friday. According ...
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Reporters Without Borders urges Bangladesh government to take action against attacks on journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a report on Friday detailing a surge in violent attacks on journalists in Bangladesh, urging the country's government to take action. The report denounces ...
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Reporters without Borders urges Malta Constitutional Court to end blackout of journalist assassination trial
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday urged Malta's Constitutional Court to lift what it describes as an 'information blackout' on the ongoing murder trial of Yorgen Fenech, the alleged ...
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HRW urges African rights commission to end Mali junta’s opposition and dissent crackdown
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a Thursday letter to stop the Malian junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent. The group's call ...
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Argentina court issues arrest warrants for Myanmar military officials over Rohingya genocide
An Argentinian court on Thursday issued international arrest warrants for 22 Burmese military officials and three civilians for their role in the genocide against the Rohingya community. The senior ...