The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rejected a sex discrimination challenge to the prison dress code on Tuesday. Judge Russell Coleman held that male and female prisoners face incomparable circumstances that justify the difference in dress code. In summer, the Hong Kong Prisoner Personal Provisions required male prisoners to wear shorts but forced female [...]

Since November 1, 2024, international graduates in Canada seeking to apply for a Post-Graduate Work Permit (PGWP)—a work permit that allows recent graduates to gain Canadian work experience—are required to submit proof of language test results within 180 days of graduating. Despite these requirements, many students could not upload  language proficiency documents because there is [...]

UN human rights experts have called on Egypt to lift ongoing restrictions on human rights defenders who have been released from detention, in line with international human rights standards.  The special rapporteurs warned that many face travel bans, frozen assets, and continued inclusion on the country’s terrorism watchlist, preventing them from resuming normal life despite [...]

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  Two groups, two slogans, and one Court. On one side of the plaza, opponents of Idaho’s and West Virginia’s transgender bans rallied behind a speaker who shouted into a [...]

The Sri Lankan government must take action and accountability for conflict-related sexual violence, Amnesty International said Tuesday following the release of a report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In a statement, Amnesty International urged the government to “to end impunity and publicly commit to a timeline” for [...]

Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is. —Carl von Clausewitz, On War North Korea is not Venezuela. While US President Donald J. Trump characterized his recent military actions against Venezuela as “an assault like people have not seen since World War II,” that description was exaggeration prima facie. [...]

Iran’s protest wave is no longer defined only by street clashes. It has entered a phase in which the state governs visibility itself. Days of near-total internet shutdown have reduced national connectivity to a sliver of ordinary levels. This is not a technical failure. It is a governing tactic that makes violence harder to document, [...]

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Wednesday that the country has banned 10 British activists who attempted to stop UK-bound migrants from leaving French beaches by destroying small boats.  The Interior Ministry clarified in a press release that the ban applies to 10 far-right activists from the Raise the Colours movement, which calls for an [...]

Twelve states’ attorneys general sued the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tuesday for conditioning its funding of health programs on compliance with the Trump administration’s policy of recognizing the existence of only two genders. The new HHS condition comes from its new Grants Policy Statement, among other similar policy changes, which sets [...]