Refugees International and the Women’s Refugee Commission released a joint report on Friday that outlines the severe effects of recent US policy shifts and aid cuts on humanitarian protections for migrants and asylum seekers throughout the region. Identified impacts included the destruction of protection routes and an increased strain on Costa Rica’s overburdened asylum system. [...]

A Kenyan human rights lawyer was expelled from Tanzania on Sunday following her attempt to attend the trial of an opposition figure facing treason charges. Martha Karua—a lawyer, former minister of justice, and former presidential candidate in Kenya—was initially detained before being deported from the airport in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city. While detained, Karua [...]

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to charges alleging she interfered with federal immigration enforcement by assisting a noncitizen avoiding arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Judge Dugan is facing two federal charges, the first being concealing an individual to prevent arrest, and the second obstruction [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced on Friday that former Chadian prime minister and opposition leader Succès Masra was arrested at his residence in the capital N’Djamena, urging authorities to immediately release him unless they can substantiate the charges against him. HRW’s Central Africa director Lewis Mudge stated: “The Chadian government should be seeking ways to [...]

A US federal appeals court on Friday rejected a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to restart a controversial deportation policy that would send migrants to countries where they have no prior ties, including countries like Libya and El Salvador. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the motion by the Department [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration admitted on Friday that the deportation of a man identified as OCG was based on erroneous information. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said that there was no record of the man telling ICE that he was not afraid to go back to Mexico, attributing the error to an agency [...]

A Thai court on Monday issued arrest warrants for 17 individuals, including construction executives and engineers, on charges of felony negligence leading to death in relation to the collapse of a thirty-story skyscraper in Bangkok during the March 28 earthquake, according to local media. The partially built State Audit office tower crumbled within seconds after [...]

On Friday, the US Supreme Court granted an emergency petition and an application for injunction to detained supposed members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) being held under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). On March 15, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act and classified TdA, a Venezuelan gang, as a terrorist organization. Following this classification, [...]

France filed a lawsuit against Iran at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday, seeking the release of two detained French nationals. The two individuals, a modern literature teacher named Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, were detained by the Islamic Republic of Iran on May 8, 2022, while visiting the country as [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.  I headed to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday to report on oral arguments revolving around President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship, which has been blocked by numerous lower courts through nationwide [...]