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The UN Human Rights Office released a report Wednesday focusing on reparations for people of African descent in response to the continuing effects of slavery and colonialism. The UN report floats a “multipronged approach” to address the legacies of slavery and colonialism, which includes the possibility of providing monetary reparations for the descendants of enslaved [...]

Elon Musk’s X Corp. sued California on Friday over California Assembly Bill 587 (AB 587), a state law requiring social media companies to publish their content moderation policies, arguing that the law violates the US Constitution’s First Amendment. The case is in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California Sacramento Division. X [...]

This article is the fourth in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens [...]

The Guardian reported Monday that Israeli embassy officials may have attempted to influence the prosecutions of pro-Palestine protesters in UK courts, but Israeli officials have denied doing so. The paper received heavily-redacted documents from activist group Palestine Action following Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. The documents show Attorney General’s Office Director Douglas Wilson told Israeli embassy officials [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon the Chinese government on Wednesday to address the widespread phenomenon of racist content on the Chinese internet. HRW also suggested that Chinese social media platforms should implement its mechanism of removing critical content against the Chinese government to combat racism. HRW found that racist content against Black people has [...]

In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka. Known as Black July, the outbreak of communal violence between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority communities left thousands dead and hundreds missing. Four decades later, the legacy of the violence lives on, searing Sri Lanka‘s social and political landscape. This [...]

The French National Assembly adopted a justice reform bill on Tuesday that would allow law enforcement to remotely activate devices’ cameras, microphones and location services for investigations of terrorism, organized crime or crimes punishable by five or more years in prison. Remote activation requires a demonstrable need and approval from a judge on a case-by-case [...]

Thalia Clerveau is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and [...]

A UN report published this month found that racism from health care providers is likely contributing to higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths among people of African descent in North and South America. The analysis, led by the UN Population Fund (UNPF), made three key findings: 1. Afrodescendent women and girls in the Americas are disadvantaged [...]

After seven nights of protests in France over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, French police have arrested a total of more than 3,000 protesters. The protests began after a police officer shot and killed Merzouk, whose parents are from Algeria and Morocco, during a traffic stop on June 27. On Monday, French [...]