The Supreme Court of Canada recognized intimate partner violence as a new civil wrong on Friday. The majority said it is a 'pernicious social ill' that the law must address. Six justices decided to ...

The International Independent Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement on Thursday found that racism against individuals of African descent in Colombia is still deeply ...

The UN's International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday announced that it had dismissed the request from convicted Bosnian war criminal Ratko Mladić, who is ...

Oklahoma District Judge Natalie Mai on Thursday ordered former death row inmate Richard Glossip to be released from prison for the first time in 29 years while awaiting a retrial. During these 29 ...

Jamelah Zidan is a US correspondent for JURIST and a law student at Vermont Law and Graduate School. On May 12, NYU Langone Health, a major hospital network in the state of New York, disclosed that ...

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be ...

US District Judge Richard Leon on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Judge Leon made preliminary ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Yale School of Medicine (Yale) of illegal discrimination along racial lines during its admissions process. The DOJ specifically claimed that “Black and ...

Romania’s Parliament removed Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s government on May 5, 2026, in a decisive 281-4 vote of no confidence—the highest support for such a motion in post-communist Romania. The ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that the armed group M23 committed human rights abuses against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during its month-long ...

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to remain available by mail and through telehealth nationwide, staying a Fifth Circuit order that had reinstated an in-person ...

South Africa's highest court, ruled Tuesday that foreigners cannot reapply for asylum if their application has been rejected. The ruling came out of Director of ...