The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that foods containing cannabidiol, or CBD, cannot receive organic certification without first being authorized for sale in the bloc.
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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Monday that Washington will suspend South Africa and Rwanda from its flagship duty-free trade program for sub-Saharan Africa, a move that would hit exports including South African auto parts, wine and Rwandan coffee.
Recent years have seen efforts to “green” international criminal law (‘ICL’). Among them are proposals to insert ecocide as a fifth core crime under the Rome Statute, and informal policies constructed by the Office of the Prosecutor (‘OTP’) to address environmental harm. However, a recent proposal has joined these efforts to add “environmental destruction” as a twelfth crime…
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14. Saul Loeb/AFP
Chief Justice of India Surya Kanton Saturday conferred the second Professor (Dr.) N.R. Madhava Menon Memorial ‘Tribute of Honour’ Award on Attorney General for India R Venkataramaniat a ceremony held in Ernakulam, Kerala.
Seoul to host arbitration congress in 2030 after failure to secure backing from South African government.
Navanethem Pillay received the prestigious, but politicized Nobel Peace Prize. She is described in the New York Times as a ‘human rights lawyer who led a United Nations commission last year that found that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza’.
European Court of Justice ruling paves way for governments to reduce slots at airports and use slot allocation as a strategic tool in addressing a
Facing US sanctions over its investigations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) received two high-profile gestures of EU support this week. First, the European Parliament awarded it its human rights prize on Thursday, then EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited its headquarters in The Hague on Friday.
