The UK Supreme Court Monday allowed an appeal by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó in a dispute over whether he or President Nicolás Maduro has control over more than US $1 billion of Venezuela’s international gold reserves held by the Bank of England. The dispute is centered on whether the UK Government has recognized Guaidó [...]

Human Rights Watch called Monday for Japan to cut ties with Myanmar’s military and halt a military study-abroad program, according to a post on the organization’s website. The organization, which conducts research and advocacy for human rights, wrote that Japan should also end a program where cadets from Myanmar receive combat training. Human Rights Watch said [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the outcome of Sunday’s extraordinary meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation on Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text [...]

Spain’s Catholic Church Sunday opened an investigation into the alleged sex abuse of over a thousand children by members of their clergy dating back 80 years. The investigation will be carried out by the Spanish Bishops Conference, headed by Cardinal Juan Jose Omella, and will look into 251 priests across 31 religious orders and 31 [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union in Maine (ACLU) Friday filed suit against the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the US District Court for the District of Maine, alleging that USCIS failed to provide detailed information on unusual numbers of denials for asylum cases for certain African countries at the Boston asylum office. The [...]

Registered voters filed suit Friday, asking the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to intervene in the state’s 2021 redistricting process. In the last decade, Pennsylvania’s population has grown more slowly than other states.  These changes are reflected in the 2020 census data. The Pennsylvania legislature is required to construct a new congressional map based on that [...]

The European Court of Human Rights Thursday held against Georgia in a case concerning an attack on LGBT protestors in the capital city Tbilisi. Amidst threats of a counter-demonstration by ultra-conservative NGOs and clergymen, senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior had guaranteed the safety of the applicants, a group of 35 Georgian nationals [...]

The UK high court’s administrative court Thursday ruled that the human rights of two Windrush members were breached by the Home Office. The court held that the claimants, Vernon Vanriel and Eunice Tumi, were denied citizenship purely because they failed to comply with the five years rule, as they were not present in the UK on the date exactly five years [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on Sunday’s OIC Foreign Ministers meeting in Islamabad on Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text has been only lightly edited [...]

In a special session held at the request of the European Union on Friday, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted on Friday to establish an international commission of human rights exerts on Ethiopia. The main aim of the commission would be to conduct thorough investigation into allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights [...]