The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took action on Friday to extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Ukraine and Sudan due to ongoing armed conflicts in those countries. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stated that DHS is prolonging and redesignating the TPS designation of both Ukraine and Sudan for [...]

Pita Limjaroenrat, a leading progressive candidate for Thai prime minister, failed on Thursday to obtain enough votes to secure the leadership position in Thai’s Parliament. During a joint parliamentary session, Pita fell short of the prime minister position by 52 votes, despite garnering overwhelming support in the May general election over the ruling military-backed government [...]

The UK and Italy have plans to create a strategic migration partnership to tackle the increasing number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, according to an exclusive report from the London Telegraph on Friday. This partnership, modeled after the current agreement between UK and France, seeks to strengthen collaboration in combating human trafficking, exchanging intelligence and [...]

JURIST staffer Pitasanna Shanmugathas attended the rally described in this dispatch. On Saturday, over 100 individuals assembled in Portland, Maine, to show their solidarity with the rights of migrant workers. The Milk with Dignity campaign, advocating for farm workers in New England, called upon Hannaford Supermarkets, an American retail chain, to take action. The objective [...]

Four Sri Lanka activist organizations accused former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday of obstructing police investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he served as a military officer during a Marxist rebellion in 1989. Activist groups the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), the Center for Human Rights and Development, Journalists [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo of war crimes including murder and rape in a report released Tuesday. HRW based the accusations on reports of abuse it documented from November 2022 to March 2023, citing 8 unlawful killings and 14 cases of rape by M23 [...]

The Netherlands and Canada jointly submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the Syrian government of committing numerous violations of international law, including torture, since the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011. The primary objective of the application, filed with the registry on June 8, is to [...]

Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) submitted  a court application, known as a mandamus, in federal court Friday urging Canadian Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino to deny former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett entry into Canada. The organizations that filed the mandamus include the Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Just Peace Advocates and the Canadian Foreign Policy [...]

Southern Utah Drag Stars, a Utah-based group that organizes drag performances, has filed a lawsuit against the city of St. George, Utah. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, asserts that the city’s refusal to grant permits for an all-ages drag show in a public park infringed upon their free speech, due process and equal protection [...]