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The Administrative Tribunal of Paris handed down a judgment on Friday to overturn a decision of the French police to ban the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from holding demonstrations. The PMOI planned to have a rally on July 1 to demand the dismissal of the Mullah’s regime aiming to “support the uprising of the [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo, Norway.  It was announced last week that Ukraine and other members of the International Coordination and Response Group for the [...]

Iran filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday challenging Canada’s jurisdiction over civil damages cases related to alleged terrorism. Iran claims that Canada has adopted and implemented a series of legislative, executive and judicial measures against Iran and its property in breach of Canada’s international obligations. These measures have abrogated [...]

Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights organization, urged Pakistan’s government on Tuesday to cease their harassment and arbitrary arrests of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.  A multitude of Afghans have fled to Pakistan in fear of persecution after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. They fled to Pakistan with the aim of building new lives [...]

Argentinian Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas asked Argentinian authorities and Interpol on Thursday to arrest four Lebanese men and have one extradited to Argentina to stand trial for their association with the deadly bombing at the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society in July 1994 where 85 people were killed. The attack was considered an act of terrorism, [...]

The United Nations released the Global Trend Report 2022 on Wednesday which covers refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. 112.6 million people fall under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The number of forcibly displaced people is 108.4 million. Both figures are at their historic high since [...]

According to a UN Development Program (UNDP) report released on Monday, the level of bias against women remains unchanged over the last decade. According to the Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) survey, nine out of ten persons have prejudices towards women. In countries with lower and higher economic, health and social disparity scores, these biases [...]

Last Wednesday the UK Parliament held its first-ever debate dedicated to genocide against the Hazaras, a mainly Shia Muslim community in Afghanistan and Pakistan often targeted for their Asiatic features and Mongolian heritage. In the session, held in the Grand Committee Room of Westminster Hall, Paul Bristow, MP for Peterborough and Chair of the All-Party [...]

Under the current conditions in Afghanistan, delivering humanitarian aid seems not only a noble endeavor but also an imperative. However, there are challenges for humanitarian actors. Most of the challenges stem from restrictions created by the Taliban, the disastrous situation of the country, the difficulty of reaching out to a large population, and dangers and [...]

Iran Human Rights released data on Thursday which shows Iran executed 142 people in May, making it the highest number of Iranian executions in one month since 2015. Some of the charges used to justify executions this year include blasphemy and adultery. Iran executed Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare after finding them guilty of [...]