Washington DC – On Wednesday, April 24,2024- a panel of justice campaigners gathered for a discussion on Focus on Liberia to address the pressing issue of establishing a War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia. The panel, consisting of Ms. Lovetta Tugbeh, Mr. Adama Dempster and Mr. Bernard Goah, engaged in a thought-provoking conversation about []
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa has pledged the Liberian Legislature’s commitment to ratifying the protocol establishing the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. Speaker Koffa made the commitment during a meeting with a high-powered delegation led by Lady Justice Imani D. Aboud, the president of the African Court on []
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Trent Staggs, a Republican mayor seeking to replace retiring Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, in Utah's GOP primary race for the Senate. "Trent Staggs is 100% MAGA, and is running to fill The Mitt Romney, a Total Loser, Seat as the next Senator from the Great State of Utah," Trump wrote in a Saturday morning post on Truth Social. "A Highly Successful Entrepreneur, who has served brilliantly as Mayor of Riverton for the past six years, Trent knows how to Create...
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, for roughly four decades, but for the last five of those years, she’s had no home in which to live. She’s not alone. Her small mountain town with a population of 39,189 provides no public homeless shelters. She is among up to 600 people experiencing […]
The Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help himThe Israeli government believes that the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague is about to file war crimes charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. We can’t know for sure – the ICC has kept its plans close to the vest – but the Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him.The...
Let us condemn all such atrocious violence as we strive to bring an end to the fighting and devastation in Gaza.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has had his conviction for sex crimes in New York overturned. The New York Court of Appeals ruled Weinstein did not receive a fair trial. The
VAMBO, Grand Bassa County – The allegations in Lee Clutz’ lawsuit against villagers in Togar Town and Pastor Town are grave: armed robbery and terroristic threat. By Emmanuel Sherman and Charles Gbayor, with The DayLight The lawsuit alleges locals terrorized Clutz’ mineworkers with firearms and destroyed his properties, documents of the St. John River City []
G7 diplomats argue any move now in investigation launched in 2021 could disrupt current ceasefire talksDiplomats from the G7 industrialised nations have urged officials at the international criminal court not to announce war crimes charges against Israel or Hamas officials, amid concerns that such a move could disrupt the chances of a breakthrough in ceasefire talks.Israeli politicians including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have suggested that the ICC could press charges imminently...
Shafaqna English-Lebanon has taken steps to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to prosecute violations occurring on Lebanese territory since October. Human Rights Watch stated that this action represents a “landmark step” towards achieving justice for war crimes. Lebanon has accused Israel of repeatedly violating its sovereignty and
A majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with Donald Trump's attorneys' arguments that a president does enjoy some level of immunity that endures past the term of office.