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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday urged Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to release news commentator Wong Kwok-ngon, to halt harassment of other journalists, and to allow free coverage of the latest deadly fire incident in Hong Kong. The CPJ specifically highlighted that the national security police arrested columnist and commentator Wong on [...]

On November 5, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections Inc., two consolidated cases challenging President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs imposed on China, Mexico, Canada and other countries. The plaintiffs argue, and the lower courts agreed, that the president’s use of the International [...]

Human Rights Watch urged French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday to treat human rights as an integral part of France’s broader policy with China. Rather than treating them as distinct from economic and political priorities, the group says France should take concrete measures to uphold human rights in Sino-French relations. Macron is visiting China from [...]

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric… It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence. —Albert Camus, The Plague World system chaos is not emerging ex nihilo, out of nothing. There have been conspicuous warnings. In [...]

It was a late September afternoon when I spotted a pair of beautiful earrings on Instagram. Curious, I followed the account’s links to an online shop. Alongside the other items, they offered curated gift packages. When I messaged them, I learned the owner was a young woman. The shop owner, Diana (a pseudonym), responded with [...]

The 30th Conference of the Parties concluded in Brazil this month, with delegates focused on reinforcing the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Central to this year’s negotiations: pressing member states to commit to more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs. In the lead-up to COP30, JURIST spoke with Dr. David [...]

Hong Kong issued written notices to two organizations on Monday that the government has promulgated orders to prohibit their operation, citing “reasonable grounds” to believe that they aim to subvert state power. The organizations can make representations in their defense before the prohibitions take effect. In a statement, the Hong Kong Secretary for Security said [...]

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2803 violates Palestine’s right to self-determination, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated on Wednesday, calling it “security-first, capital-driven model of foreign control” that entrenches existing power asymmetries. Albanese, a UN expert appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said that the resolution [...]

The UN body responsible for nuclear energy policy issued a resolution on Thursday ordering Iran to disclose its stockpile of enriched uranium and allow inspections of nuclear sites bombed by the United States and Israel five months ago. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a 180-member international organization accountable to the UN General Assembly [...]

Japan’s new government should prioritize human rights in its foreign policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday, calling on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to adopt stronger legal, diplomatic, and institutional measures to address abuses in Asia and globally. Japan is the only G7 country without sanctions targeting foreign officials implicated in serious human rights violations. [...]