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The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked Senate Bill (SB) 4 on Monday, a strict, new Texas immigration law criminalizing various immigration offenses. The Court’s order was in response to an administrative stay granted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Saturday, allowing the law to be enforced. The applicants, the [...]

Kenya and Haiti signed a security deal on Friday which will see Kenya deploy 1,00 police officers to Haiti, a country which has increasingly fallen victim to gang violence, to help restore order. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry thanked President William Ruto and the people of Kenya for their commitment to Haitian security. Ruto pledged [...]

Albania’s Parliament approved a deal with Italy on Thursday to hold migrants rescued from international waters at Italian-run processing centers. Amnesty International previously condemned the plan to create migrant detention centers under Italian jurisdiction in Albania, calling the deal “unworkable, harmful and unlawful.” The plan is to create two centers in Albania, one at the [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]

Papua New Guinea’s National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Monday that at least 49 people have been killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands region. Reports have said that it is “very likely to be one of the deadliest massacres in the highlands in recent history.” The [...]

Human Rights First (HRF), an organization dedicated to safeguarding human rights in the US, published a fact sheet Monday outlining the findings of an investigation into US border and asylum policies. The investigation ultimately revealed ways in which the policies are harmful to Black asylum seekers. The fact sheet indicated that the recently enacted asylum [...]

Police in Haiti fired tear gas at protestors on Monday as demonstrations against Prime Minister Ariel Henry continue to rage on in the nation’s Capital, Port-Au-Prince. The protests were conducted to criticize Ariel Henry’s lack of action to curb gang violence. According to an HRW report, the cycle of violence began after the assassination of [...]

A new Amnesty International report showed on Wednesday the increasing limits of Western sanctions as Myanmar finds alternative to sanctioned American and European jet fuel.  In spring of 2023, the US, UK, Canada, and the EU imposed sanctions on the importation of jet fuel by the central government in Naypyidaw. This was allegedly to prevent [...]

Ethiopian Ambassador to Somalia, Muktar Mohamed Ware, issued an apology on Sunday following reports of his possible dismissal over remarks he made regarding the country in an interview with Ethiopian local media. Ware reportedly said that Somalia is a nation “created by colonialists” and that “Somaliland is an independent country which has both de facto [...]

Immigration is one of the hottest hot button issues going into the 2024 US presidential election. It has divided Americans, and the Republican party continues to go to extremes on the matter, with some 81% of GOP voters in the Iowa primary agreeing with former president Donald Trump’s description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood [...]