The Australian Federal Government announced on Monday that it would make the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct mandatory for Australia’s grocery giants, opening up the possibility of $10 million fines. The announcement comes as a direct response to a report by former labor minister Dr. Craig Emerson, who was tasked in January with leading [...]

Law students and law graduates in Nepal are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Smriti Pantha is a graduate of the Kathmandu University School of Law. She files this from Kathmandu. Chhaupadi is an age-old social malpractice in Nepal, predominantly observed in the Karnali and Far-Western Provinces. The term [...]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Russia must abide by UN sanctions on North Korea, following an agreement between the two countries last week to provide military assistance to each other in case of military aggression. Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Guterres stated that “Any relationship that any [...]

Feminists protested nationwide against the Rassemblement National (RN), a far-right political party in France, on Sunday, ahead of the legislative elections. Wearing purple, the official color of the Feminist movement, 130,000 people gathered in French cities to protest against the potential victory of the RN , which could seriously undermine women’s rights in the country. [...]

Canada’s Ambassador to China, Jennifer May, visited the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from June 19 to 22, where she expressed concerns over documented human rights violations, according to a statement released Sunday by Global Affairs Canada. During the visit, May met with Xinjiang Party Secretary MA Xingrui and other senior officials of the regional government of [...]

Togo’s High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) announced the end of its suspension of accreditation for foreign news organizations, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Friday. The decision comes two months after accreditations were suspended, something RSF called “a flagrant violation of press freedom.” French journalist Thomas Dietrich entered Togo to cover the political unrest [...]

Prosecutors in France have charged a 19-year-old man and another, minor, youth in the vicinity of Paris with ‘terrorist conspiracy’ after they were found to be planning a militant terrorist attack on Jewish targets, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday.  The teens, who met via social media, were allegedly planning a “violent [...]

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei ordered the country’s judiciary not to refer to Western human rights principles in their decisions, in a Saturday speech during a meeting with the country’s Judiciary Chief and other senior judiciary officials. The Supreme Leader said that the principles are incorrect and described Western countries as hypocritical. The [...]

The Sri Lanka Navy arrested 22 Indian fishermen on Saturday for alleged illegal fishing in the island nation’s waters and seized three fishing vessels. The fishermen were arrested from the North Sea near Delft Islands during a search operation conducted on Saturday night. Navy Spokesperson Captain Gayan Wickramasuriya said that the arrested fishermen would be [...]

UK political party Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed Saturday that Google blocked the party’s Ad Accounts. Farage called this “election interference.” The account has since been reinstated. One advertisement was removed for a “policy violation.” It is unclear which policy they violated. Google’s advertising policies that appear most applicable are the political content and [...]