New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced Tuesday that Las Cruces police officer Brad Lunsford was being charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting and killing a Black nurse, Presley Eze. The shooting occurred in August 2022 in a confrontation outside a gas station. “The killing of Presley Eze is a tragedy and serves as yet [...]

The Australian government announced Thursday that it will address alleged abuses of its migration and visa system in an effort to crack down on human trafficking and other forms of organized crime. In January 2023, former Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police Christine Nixon was appointed to undertake a Rapid Review into the Exploitation of [...]

Abir Moussi, a prominent opponent of Tunisian President Kais Saied, was detained by the police Tuesday. The incident occurred after Moussi’s participation in a sit-in protest at the entrance to the presidential palace. According to local news, Aroussi Zgir, the head of the Lawyers’ Branch in Tunisia, stated that Moussi had been detained for 48 [...]

The UN Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution Monday which authorizes UN member states to undertake a stabilization mission to Haiti. Under the coordination and leadership of the Kenyan government, the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission will  cooperate with the Haitian government, for an initial period of one year, to restore peace and security amid surging [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, which questions if a person has the right to sue a business over its disability accessibility information if the individual has no plans of actually going to that business. Deborah Laufer is a wheelchair and cane user, has [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading [...]

The Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) called upon Cyprus to make concerted efforts to prevent corruption within its executive branch in a report released Monday.  According to GRECO’s findings, Cyprus’ legislation exhibits several strengths; however, its effectiveness is compromised by institutional shortcomings. As an illustrative example the report cites [...]

A Wisconsin state judge struck down on Tuesday a public school district policy that allowed students to request to transition to a different gender identity at school without parental consent and over parental objection. Judge Michael Maxwell ruled that the policy violated the fundamental parental right to direct the care of their child. Maxwell found [...]

The Supreme Court of Mauritius declared on Wednesday that a law criminalizing sodomy is “unconstitutional.” The court found that the provision of the country’s criminal code criminalizing sodomy discriminated against gay men on the basis of sex. The court ruled on claims brought forth by “Collectif-Arc-en-Ciel” (CAEC), on behalf of an individual named Abdool Ridwan [...]

UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay announced plans to ban transgender women from female NHS wards Wednesday. He claimed the changes will ensure respect for patients’ “privacy, dignity, and safety” but did not elaborate on how the changes would impact transgender patients. During his speech at the Conservative Conference 2023, Barclay declared his intention to change [...]