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nec is one of the last nearly pristine coastal zones in the entire mediterranean and is located within albania s southern greek speaking region the project has raised serious concerns among local ethnic greek residents over the loss of their traditional lands image wikimedia commons the andes peru mass of reparation for abuses of catholic society a delegation from the vatican including cardinals and bishops joined representatives of the catholic church in peru to kneel before local campesinos and ask their forgiveness at a mass of reparation held at the parish of san juan bautista in catacaos piura region a vatican investigation found that the tallán indigenous communities of the parish for over a decade suffered land expropriation physical threats and other abuses at the hands of the sodalitium christianae vitae the lay society better known as sodalicio was among the most active catholic movements in latin america from the early 1970s until it was suppressed by order of pope francis in april 2025 photo vatican news planet watch australia admits un expert in lng site challenge the federal court of australia has admitted a un special rapporteur on human rights and the environment as an intervenor in a judicial review concerning a liquefied natural gas lng operation site the admission marks the first time a national court has allowed a un environmental expert to advise on international environmental law special rapporteur astrid puentes riaño is to intervene in light of the recent un general assembly resolution enshrining the duty of member states to protect the global climate system by reducing greenhouse gas emissions photo unesco europe russia unlawfully seizes civilian property in ukraine human rights watch hrw reports that russian authorities are unlawfully seizing civilian property belonging to ukrainians in occupied areas of the country in violation of international law hrw analyzed some 8 000 cases involving property seizures filed in 25 courts in occupied areas with court records showing consistent disregard of evidence of ownership and efforts by owners to assert their rights the seizure of property has affected millions of displaced ukrainians or those who refuse to re register their properties under russian law as they are stripped of shelter income or the means to sustain their lives map pcl north america canada setback for aboriginal title on private lands the supreme court of canada refused to hear an appeal by the six wolastoqey communities of new brunswick seeking to assert aboriginal title over private lands the refusal to hear the appeal makes final a lower court s decision holding that the wolastoqey nation cannot seek declarations of aboriginal title over privately owned lands but may seek damages against the government for unjustified infringement of aboriginal title in response to the refusal the wolastoqey nation maintained that it does not remove the government s duty to first nations chief patricia bernard of madawaska said our ancestors never surrendered our lands and waters our title has not been extinguished the fight for our homeland will continue map of traditional wabanaki confederacy lands wikimedia commons new york city new york state limits ice enforcement activities new york gov kathy hochul signed legislation that places limits on where and how immigration customs enforcement ice agents can enforce immigration law in the state the new legislation also prohibits state and local police from cooperating with ice to enforce civil laws under the new law local governments police forces and corrections agencies are no longer allowed to enter 287 g agreements under which ice delegates immigration enforcement to state or local officers photo of ice agents in minnesota chad davis africa drc appeal for peace to to fight ebola the head of the world health organization has appealed for a ceasefire in the democratic republic of congo s ituri province where ebola is rapidly spreading director general dr tedros adhanom ghebreyesus statement said even a temporary truce would allow health workers through and save lives i urge you i implore you give us the space to help the people who need it most he said addressing the armed factions active in the province out of nearly a thousand suspected ebola cases in the drc and uganda over 220 people may have died with the who warning that the outbreak could potentially be much larger photo of displaced persons camp in ituri alexis huguet msf via tnh more headlines featured stories orbital data centers in legal vacuum with a landmark filing to the federal communications commission spacex proposed a network of one million solar powered satellites designed not for communication but for computation this orbital data center system bolstered by the recent spacex xai merger aims to place massive ai server farms into outer space opening a jurisdictional dilemma we are witnessing the birth of digital soil a new form of territory where power is exercised not by planting flags but by controlling space based data processing for emerging economies and global south democracies the implications are severe if orbital infrastructure becomes the backbone of global ai exclusion from its governance will translate directly into a new form of digital dependency in a commentary for jurist website vishal sharma of nalsar university in hyderabad argues that the united nations must designate orbital strata as international data commons to ensure that the digital soil of our future remains a global public good continue reading orbital data centers in legal vacuum trump s iran war no authorization no imminence no plan given the absence of congressional authorization un security council approval or any credible showing of imminence the trump administration s strikes on iran constitute violations of both us constitutional law and foundational international norms setting a dangerous precedent for unchecked executive war making mohamed arafa professor of law at egypt s alexandria university makes the case in a commentary for jurist continue reading trump s iran war no authorization no imminence no plan the lunar jurisdictional trap the recent unveiling of russia s selena project a nuclear power plant slated for the lunar surface by 2035 under the joint russo chinese international lunar research station program has been hailed as an unprecedented ambition of engineering but beneath the proposed cooling towers lies a volatile reality we are about to place the highest stakes technologies of the 21st century autonomous artificial intelligence ai and nuclear fission on a legal foundation that has been frozen since the cold war in a commentary for jurist website vishal sharma of nalsar university in hyderabad argues that we need a new lex spacialis to fill the vacuum of space before it is filled by the strongest unaccountable power with no human oversight continue reading the lunar jurisdictional trap burma junta controlled electoral sham trouble torn burma is heading for the first general elections since the military coup of february 2021 that ousted a democratically elected government the seating of a new parliament will mark the re opening of the bicameral body which was suspended when the military junta seized power however several prominent political parties will be barred from the three phase polling to start on december 28 including aung san suu kyi s national league for democracy which won the last general elections held in november 2020 the new elections with only parties approved by the military junta participating are rejected by the opposition as a sham and there will be no voting in the nearly half of the country now under the control of the armed resistance loyal to the rebel parallel government countervortex correspondent nava thakuria speaks to opposition activists in clandestinity who demand that the world reject the junta s controlled elections continue reading burma junta controlled electoral sham when citizenship becomes caste birthright citizenship in the united states was never a bureaucratic detail or an immigration loophole it was a direct assault on white supremacy s original theory of the nation that black presence was permissible only as labor never as belonging the framers of the fourteenth amendment sought to end that theory for good that amendment did not just welcome formerly enslaved black people into the civic body it attempted to inoculate the constitution itself against the return of caste yet white supremacy in every generation finds new ways to renegotiate the boundaries of who counts as fully american the supreme court has agreed to hear the consolidated case challenging lower court rulings that struck down trump s attempt to repeal birthright citizenship this signals that the highest court in the land is willing to consider whether whiteness may once again serve as the gatekeeper of america s future timothy benston of the black eye substack writes that if this administration and this court seek to restore whiteness as the measure of full belonging they must face resistance equal to the enormity of that threat continue reading when citizenship becomes caste the paradox of trump s drug war this week president donald trump pardoned a man federal prosecutors described as the architect of a narco state who moved 400 tons of cocaine to united states shores in september the us military began killing people on caribbean vessels based on unproven suspicions they were doing the same thing on a far smaller scale the strikes have drawn allegations of war crimes the contradiction has drawn bipartisan scrutiny in an explainer for jurist ingrid burke friedman examines the white house legal justifications for the air strikes and the response from international law experts she also dissects the politics behind the divergent approaches to the pardoned honduran ex president juan orlando hernández and the incumbent venezuelan leader nicolás maduro who faces trafficking charges in the us and a destabilization campaign continue reading the paradox of trump s drug war china s mega hydro scheme sparks outcry in india the chinese state s hydro electric activities on tibet s yarlung tsangpo river known in india as the brahmaputra have long been a source of tension with the downstream countries of india and bangladesh which cite a risk of ecological disaster now beijing has started building a colossal dam at the tsangpo s great bend in southeastern tibet close to the border with the indian state of arunachal pradesh chinese premier li qiang just attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the medog hydropower station in nyingchi tibet autonomous region and hailed it as the project of the century but the 168 billion hydro dam which will be the world s largest when it is completed is described by arunachal pradesh leaders as an existential threat countervortex correspondent nava thakuria reports from northeast india continue reading china s mega hydro scheme sparks outcry in india pkk dissolution the long farewell to vanguardism the formal dissolution of the kurdistan workers party pkk which had waged an armed insurgency against the turkish state since 1984 has implications beyond the borders of turkey as the ideology of imprisoned leader abdullah öcalan has won a following among militant kurds in syria iraq iran and the greater diaspora in an analysis for britain s anarchist oriented freedom news writer blade runner argues that the pkk dissolution does not necessarily represent a retreat but is the culmination of a long rethinking of the precepts of vanguardism ethno nationalism and separatism in favor of a broader strategic vision emphasizing gender liberation pluralism and local democracy continue reading pkk dissolution the long farewell to vanguardism free syrians stand up for palestine in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations across government held territory the syrian people have taken to the streets not to challenge their own leadership but to protest israel s ongoing human rights atrocities in gaza and its repeated military strikes on syrian soil an explainer by jurist breaks down what s fueling the anger what it signals about a country emerging from decades of harsh internal rule and why syrians are rallying around a cause that reaches well beyond their own country s borders continue reading free syrians stand up for palestine leonard peltier heads home at last native american activist leonard peltier one of the longest serving federal prisoners in us history has been released to home confinement after spending nearly five decades behind bars his imprisonment stems from a controversial 1977 conviction in the shooting deaths of two fbi agents on south dakota s pine ridge indian reservation a case that has been harshly contested between activists and law enforcement for generations as peltier returns to his birthplace on north dakota s turtle mountain indian reservation his case continues to raise questions about justice reconciliation and the relationship between the federal government and native american nations in an explainer for jurist ingrid burke friedman looks back on his case and its legacy continue reading leonard peltier heads home at last revolution 9 in a brief memoir written for canada s skunk magazine countervortex editor bill weinberg recalls his days as a young neo yippie in the 1980s a remnant faction of the 1960s counterculture group adopted a punk aesthetic for the reagan era launched the us branch of the rock against racism movement brought chaos to the streets at republican and democratic political conventions defied the police in open cannabis smoke ins and won a landmark supreme court ruling for free speech the yippie clubhouse at 9 bleecker street the hub for all these activities has long since succumbed to the gentrification of the east village but it survived long enough to provide inspiration to a new generation of radical youth during occupy wall street continue reading revolution 9 chiquita to pay for paramilitary terror in colombia in 2007 chiquita one of the world s largest banana producers admitted that for years it had been knowingly paying a colombian terrorist organization to protect its operations in the country the consequence was predictably violent resulting in thousands of murders disappearances and acts of torture this week nearly two decades later a federal jury in south florida ordered the company to pay upwards of 38 million in damages in the first of multiple waves of wrongful death and disappearance lawsuits in an explainer for jurist ingrid burke friedman explores the factors that drove the multinational to make these payments the consequences and the legal impact continue reading chiquita to pay for paramilitary terror in colombia posts navigation previous features regions iraq syria iran yemen afghanistan palestine kurdistan greater mideast africa sahel horn west africa north africa 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