New York Supreme Court Judge Wayne Ozzi of Richmond County issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Monday blocking Mayor Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, a surcharge targeting high-value residential ...
Four human rights organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration challenging US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that the measures ...
Türkiye's Parliament on Monday announced that it had passed a new law creating conditional legal mechanisms for certain members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a shift signifying advancing ...
A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia Tuesday after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity, ...
UN experts on Monday decried the recent surge of violence and human rights abuses against civilians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, voicing concern that the human rights crisis continues to ...
Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in ...
When the head of Iraq’s Federal Board of Supreme Audit brought the board’s annual report before the Council of Representatives last week, Parliament did something it had not done since 2003: it ...
Amnesty International on Monday urged candidates in Zambia's upcoming August 13 general elections to show a clear and genuine commitment to reversing the nation's troubling authoritarian slide, ...
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Monday granted leave to 11 applicants to appeal their national security convictions to the ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday urging states to scale back school immunization requirements and directing the attorney general to pursue litigation against states that fail ...
A US federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump likely lacks legal authority to demolish and rebuild portions of the White House without congressional approval. The ruling upholds ...
The UN reported on Friday that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing ...