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 University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in ...

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 ...

Amnesty International on Thursday called on the Philippines to arrest Senator Ronald dela Rosa, expressing deep concern over reports that he fled the Senate building to evade an International ...

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 ...

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 Court of King's Bench of Alberta quashed the province's separation petition on Wednesday, holding that the authorities ...

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 ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday released a research briefing asserting that the US government is violating international human rights law by approving lithium mining projects across Nevada without ...

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 ...

Platform workers around the world experience long hours, unpredictable and declining pay, and serious safety risks as platform companies sidestep labor protections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said ...

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 ...