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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday it will terminate the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole programs, ending a key immigration pathway that will affect more than half a million people. The advance notice circulated on Friday explained that “neither urgent humanitarian reasons nor significant public benefit warrants the continued [...]

US federal agencies must rehire tens of thousands of fired probationary employees after a federal judge ruled Thursday their firings were carried out unlawfully. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction, which broadened the previous temporary restraining order. Apart from reinstating the fired workers, the order also requires government agencies [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk informed attendees of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday of the continuous accessibility barriers that people with disabilities face, especially women. Volker Türk contended that the international community failed to uphold Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide on the constitutionality of state and local governments’ bans on “conversion therapy,” in a case from Colorado. Conversion therapy refers to the effort used to convert someone’s gender identity and sexual orientation. Conversion therapy was found by a Court of Appeals to be harmful, unsafe and [...]

A federal US judge on Thursday blocked an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to freeze billions of dollars in congressionally approved funding destined for 22 states and the District of Columbia, concluding that the White House’s directive overstepped its constitutional authority by halting money that Congress had already appropriated.. In an extensive opinion, Chief [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched an investigation into Alberta Health Services on Thursday, confirmed by Public Interest Alberta. The investigation follows a complaint in February that made several allegations of corruption with respect to Alberta Health Services procurement, and the RCMP refused to provide further information given the active investigation. The investigation follows [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Aviva Chomsky, a historian, author, and activist whose work challenges dominant narratives about immigration, labor, and colonialism. Chomsky, a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, has spent over 30 years engaged in Latin American solidarity and immigrant [...]

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone — Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (1970) Decades of my professional life have been devoted to the topic of expertise and experts — their qualifications, basis of knowledge, standards by which we evaluate them in court, and their proper [...]

Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona ruled Wednesday that Arizona’s abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional and permanently enjoined state employees from enforcing the ban. Plaintiffs, who are healthcare providers around the state, argued that the abortion ban “radically reduced” people from making autonomous decisions about whether to bear a child, which [...]

UN Human Rights Office expressed grave concerns on Monday concerning attacks on hospitals and abductions of patients by the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 during the ongoing armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ravina Shamdasani, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, stated that M23 rebels on February 28 raided CBCA Ndosho Hospital and [...]