Griffins is a Kenya School of Law student based in Kisumu, where he reports on legal, policy, and human rights developments in Kenya for JURIST. On 24th April 2026, Kenya’s Court of Appeal sitting ...

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Friday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is closing ...

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario voted on Thursday to exempt records held by ministers from freedom of information (FOI) requests. The amendment is said to have violated the right of Ontario ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged the US and Iran to return to peace negotiations amid rising tensions in the ongoing war, calling for a new “culture of peace” to replace the default recourse to ...

Marwan Barghouti has spent more than two decades behind bars. Born in 1959 in the West Bank village of Kobar, Barghouti rose from student activist to a leading figure in Palestinian political life — ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign ...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will audit the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). According ...

In a unanimous decision Thursday, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed all charges against Philippines ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, sending him to a formal trial.

The Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that FDA-approved marijuana products and ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Texas may require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. In a closely divided en banc decision in Nathan ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defender, Mary Lawlor, warned Thursday that despite government efforts, structural challenges continue to undermine the safety of human rights ...