After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a statement released on October 20, Russell called for immediate investment in Bangladesh’s children. Her first priority was ending child marriage and keeping [...]

Non-profit organization Liberty Justice Center, on behalf of U.S. food importer Gellert Global Group, initiated a lawsuit on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada. The lawsuit argues the duties represent another attempt to use a Depression-era trade statute, Section 338, to exceed his power as president and claim [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Missouri on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against xAI and MZX Tech. Judge Debra Brown said that the Clean Air Act (CAA) gives the administrator of the EPA the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the European Union (EU), Belgium and Denmark to press Vietnamese President To Lam to address the country’s deteriorating human rights situation during his October 19–24 visit to Europe. HRW said that Vietnam’s government has intensified its crackdown on basic freedoms, including freedom of expression, peaceful activism, and independent [...]

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Timothy Kelly blocking the executive exclusion of CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House complex is being widely heralded as a triumphant vindication of the Free Press clause. In his 26-page opinion, Judge Kelly unmasked the state’s post-hoc national security justifications, finding that the blanket [...]

I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude toward the Islamic Republic seemed to have changed. He had begun to defend the government, or at least to [...]

Eric Ngone is a member of the JURIST News staff and an occasional contributor based in Kenya. He is a fourth-year law student at Egerton School of Law. Kenya’s Mombasa Law Court has found controversial religious leader Paul Mackenzie guilty in a case involving the deaths of more than 190 children linked to the Shakahola [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters.   In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]