5 October 2026: World Space Week Human interest in space has been multifaceted, ranging from the deep-seated desire to seek out the origins of our existence to the search for extraterrestrial life and habitable worlds. Prior to the modern technology used to explore space today, ancient civilizations tracked the movement of stars, planets and eclipses [...]

Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Thursday announced a pause on remaining scheduled executions in the state after Christa Pike, who was to be executed on Wednesday for her role in a 1995 murder, survived the two doses of lethal injections. After being administered two dosages of pentobarbital, a drug used in single-drug executions where a [...]

UNICEF on Thursday warned that a surge in violence across Yemen has resulted in the forced displacement of more than 57,000 children, exacerbating an already severe humanitarian crisis driven by a decade-long civil war, economic collapse, climate shocks, and a healthcare system on the brink of collapse. Highlighting the dire circumstances that these children are [...]

Sarisha Harikrishna is JURIST’s Deputy News Managing Editor and an occasional dispatch contributor covering Malaysia. A Bar student at City St George’s, University of London, she specializes in international criminal law and transitional justice. Today, September 16 marks exactly 63 years since Malaysia as the modern world knows it, was officially born, uniting what was then [...]

UN experts on Friday raised alarm over the alleged enforced disappearance, torture and extrajudicial killing of Imran Ali, a student from Balochistan province, calling it part of a state-sponsored pattern of targeting ethnic Baloch people and urging Pakistan to conduct an urgent investigation. In commenting on the importance of transparency and accountability in shedding light [...]

UN experts on Friday urged member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to implement more stringent measures to safeguard the future of the Court after the latest string of sanctions by the United States targeting senior court officials, emphasizing that such sanctions threaten justice and only serve to embolden the perpetrators of atrocities. In [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday called on authorities in Thailand to take urgent measures to address a wave of online death threats and harassment against members of parliament Angkhana Neelaphaijit and Romadon Panjor, as well as human rights activist Anchana Heemmina, after they protested actions of the Thai military and expressed their support for the [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged member states of the African Union to continue providing political, legal and financial support to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court), to enable the Court to carry out its mandate more effectively across the continent. In light of the Court’s 20th anniversary, which fell on July [...]

Amnesty International on Friday condemned the Portuguese Parliament’s recent announcement that it had passed a new law prohibiting the donning of face coverings in public areas, a decision that carries repercussions for fundamental civil liberties and individual autonomy in the country. João Godinho Martins, the executive director of Amnesty International in Portugal, stated: “Far from [...]

A UN expert on Wednesday called on the French government to throw out a bill that would enshrine the presumption that police officers who use firearms are acting within the scope of their duties unless evidence proves otherwise, a decision that could legitimize and normalize violence against civilians. In commenting on the potential consequences if [...]