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Justice Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba is a Supreme Court Judge in Zambia. Following eight years as Zambia’s first female High Court Judge, she became Investigator General (Ombudsman) in 1989, serving as International Ombudsman Institute Board Director and Vice-President until 1996. Justice Mumba served on the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 1992 to [...]

The UK’s labor government announced Tuesday that it will end the Bibby Stockholm barge contract as of January 2025. The decision not to renew the contract is part of the government’s strategy to clear the asylum backlog and reform the asylum system. The Minister for Border Security and Asylum, Dame Angela Eagle, emphasized the need to [...]

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji was the 4th President of the International Criminal Court. He is the Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University and a Special Advisor to the President of the University. From 2012 to 2021, he served as a judge at the ICC, first as a [...]

Leading UK rights organizations called on the new Labour government in a joint letter Thursday to take immediate action to cease the United Kingdom’s complicity in what they term as Israel’s ongoing atrocity crimes against Palestinians. Addressing newly-appointed Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Foreign Secretary, and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) informed the UN Security Council on Monday that phase one of the departure of the UN-DRC peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, had been completed on June 25, but the DRC’s representative stressed that the next withdrawal phase will be addressed when conditions permit, with no further information on the timeline [...]

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Saturday that his government will end the controversial Rwanda scheme introduced by the Sunak government, saying in a press conference that the scheme was “never a deterrent” and was ineffective as a migration policy. The scheme, introduced by the Conservative government to deter migrant boats arriving in the UK, [...]

Human rights organization Amnesty International issued a note of recommendation Monday urging the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to implement human rights pledges made by President Felix Tshisekedi and highlighting five priority rights issues in the African country. The note implored the DRC government to address the safety of civilians and unpunished war crimes in [...]

Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content The author, a Bar Course student from City University London (GB), explores why this election could redefine Britain’s future and how the major parties plan to win over the British public. On the 22nd May, UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak called an election for the [...]

This interview provides an overview of advocacy efforts to secure the release of Ryan Corbett, a US citizen who the Taliban have detained in Afghanistan for over two years, his health deteriorating drastically as a result. JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content James Joseph interviewed Corbett’s Washington-based lawyer Ryan Fayhee and UK Barrister Kate [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor warned on Wednesday that human rights defenders are increasingly targeted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially in the eastern region of the country, amid intensifying armed conflict. Lawlor said that human rights defenders in the DRC are continuously intimidated, attacked and killed even though authorities have been [...]