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The Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC) heard a constitutional challenge on Monday to end forced transfers of patients seeking access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD), brought by organization Dying With Dignity Canada (DWDC). Currently, access to MAiD in certain cases is impaired by caretakers whose religious beliefs conflict with patient requests. In some [...]

A federal district court in New York issued a two-week temporary restraining order (TRO) on Friday, blocking a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold family assistance funds from five states. On Tuesday, the administration said that it would suspend payments to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York under three federal social programs because [...]

Google and Character.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm, agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit linked to a teen’s suicide in 2024, a landmark settlement for AI-related harm cases. The US District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed the lawsuit following the agreement  between the plaintiff and defendants. The parties have 90 days to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the Egyptian government has “severely undermined the rights to education and health care” through a lack of funding. It called for the government to “guarantee free primary education” and “ensure high-quality health care is universally accessible.” According to HRW, the Egyptian parliament approved an education budget of [...]

The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court decision holding that a state law generally banning abortion and a separate law that prohibited the use of abortion pills are unconstitutional. Wyoming passed the abortion bans in 2022, which included one total ban unless a situation of rape or incest occurred, and one banning [...]

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation launched a class-wide discrimination challenge on Thursday to a new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policy that eliminates health-insurance coverage for most gender-affirming medical care in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) programs, alleging that the change violates Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination [...]

A Kenyan High Court judge halted implementation of a landmark US-Kenya health cooperation agreement on December 19, pending a constitutional challenge. Justice Chacha Mwita of the High Court of Kenya at Milimani Law Courts issued the order suspending the framework signed on December 4 between the governments of Kenya and the United States, following a [...]

UN experts on Friday called for the protection of eight pro-Palestine activists on hunger strike while imprisoned in the UK. The eight individuals began their hunger strike on November 2. The experts expressed concerns regarding the treatment of activists, warning that the UK must comply with its obligations to the individuals under international human rights [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Togo authorities to release Togolese-Irish citizen and human rights defender Abdoul Aziz Goma from prison on the seventh anniversary of his arrest. Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor noted that the Togolese Criminal Procedure Code allows for conditional release of prisoners who have [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 8 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. Luigi Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, on December 4, 2024, outside a Manhattan hotel. He faces a nine-count indictment including second-degree murder, where [...]