UN human rights experts issued a forceful appeal to the international community on Thursday to reject the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, denouncing it as violent, illegitimate and fundamentally oppressive. Experts described widespread human rights violations, including public executions, corporal punishment, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, and targeted discrimination against ethnic, religious, and LGBTQ+ minorities. They [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday expressed shock and sorrow over the death of Colombian senator and presidential pre‑candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay. Uribe Turbay, 39, a rising figure in the conservative Democratic Center party, was shot during a campaign rally at Bogotá’s El Golfito Park on June 7, struck twice in the head and once in the [...]

Hong Kong authorities on Monday cancelled passports and banned financial support for 16 overseas-based pro-democracy activists accused of endangering national security. The orders were issued under Hong Kong’s 2024 Article 23 national security legislation, officially known as the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. The 16 activists are among 19 individuals wanted by police since July for alleged [...]

Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation restoring the independence of the country’s leading anti-corruption agencies, reversing a controversial law enacted last week that placed them under the prosecutor general’s control. The new law was adopted by Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, with 331 votes in favor and none opposed. The law reestablishes the autonomy [...]

JURIST’s Christine Savino is currently working in Ukraine with war victims, including those displaced by bombings, while supporting European Court of Human Rights case research and submissions on Russian war crimes. The thunders of exploding bombs recently interrupted my night, a morose testament to Russia’s nocturnal attacks on Ukraine, which have become a defining feature [...]

On Friday, a US federal judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the government from mass-cancelling of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants, finding that President Donald Trump’s administration likely violated the First Amendment by rescinding NEH grants based on viewpoint discrimination. The lawsuit, brought by the Authors Guild and several affected [...]

France officially transferred control of its last military installations in Senegal to local authorities in a ceremony on Thursday, concluding the permanent deployment of French troops in the country since Senegal gained independence in 1960. The withdrawal of over 350 troops marks the completion of a process initiated in March, when France began handing over [...]

The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously adopted resolution 2786, extending the UN Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) in Yemen until  January 28, 2026. The renewal underscores the mission’s role in sustaining the 2018 Stockholm cease-fire agreement and demilitarization of the critical docks in the port of Hudaydah, through which much of Yemen’s [...]

A leaked internal memo obtained by the Washington Post and published Sunday revealed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has authorization to deport individuals to a “third country,” or nation other than one’s country of origin, with just six hours’ notice “in exigent circumstances.” While standard protocol allows for at least 24‑hour notice, the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a New York law that permits state and private actors to sue gun manufacturers and sellers for contributing to gun violence. In its opinion, a three-judge panel rejected arguments that the state’s law is preempted by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in [...]