Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female law graduate reports on the Taliban closure of Afghan universities to women. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited to respect the [...]
Joshua Cossin is the new White House Correspondent for JURIST. He attended the Zelenskyy-Biden press conference in the East Room Wednesday, and files this report. Exactly 300 days since the war between Russia and Ukraine began, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken leave of his besieged nation for the first time by taking an unannounced trip [...]
Anjana Meza, JURIST’s staff correspondent at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, forwards this eyewitness account of recent protests in Arequipa from a law student at the Universidad del Pacífico who was visiting southern Peru earlier this month when Peru’s Congress removed President Pedro Castillo, who had attempted to unconstitutionally dissolve the legislature. [...]
Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Here, a correspondent in Tehran talks about her experience after a recent protest. For security and privacy reasons, we are withholding the name of our correspondent. This report has [...]
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, one of our correspondents in Kabul speaks of a wave of resignations of Afghan university professors after Taliban women were officially barred from higher education on Tuesday. For privacy and security reasons, we are [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the Taliban closure of Afghan universities to women. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited [...]
Anjana Meza is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Lima, and a law student in the Facultad de Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After Dina Boluarte was sworn in as president of Peru earlier this month, on December 10, various protests began in several regional departments of Peru, especially in Arequipa, Huancavelica and Ayacucho. Protesters [...]
James Joseph is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. The state of the courts and tribunals in England and Wales has become critical. In previous dispatches about strike action taken by the Criminal Bar Association I have addressed the scale of the issue, and the dire needs of a justice system on the brink of [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Last week, on 9th December, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) introduced a private member bill on India’s Uniform Civil Code [...]
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a PhD in Political Sociology and a political researcher in Tehran. Saturday was International Human Rights Day, but the situation in Iran is extremely anti-human. Serious decisions and executions of youths arrested in protests have started, and thousands of detainees live in limbo. Iran is sad. Everyone is shocked. People came to [...]
