Edited by Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees everyone the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information through any media without interference. This global dispatch, contributed by correspondents around the world, examines key challenges and developments [...]

Perú’s President Dina Boluarte recently shook up the country’s political landscape by enacting a new law on August 13 granting amnesty to members of the Armed Forces, the National Police, and self-defense committees who participated in the fight against terrorism between 1980 and 2000. The law has divided public opinion and reignited debate about human [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Friday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) declined to hear a petition seeking to apply the country’s workplace sexual harassment law—called the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 or the POSH Act—to political [...]

In a public address on July 29, Ghana’s attorney general and minister for justice, Mr. Dominic Ayine, announced plans to expand access to legal education through sweeping reforms aimed at helping thousands of LLB holders who are unable to enter the Ghana School of Law (GSL) and qualify as lawyers. Ghana’s current legal education system [...]

Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this report from Nairobi. Susan Njoki’s tragic death sent shockwaves through Kenya’s mental health community—not only because it marked the loss of a passionate advocate, but because her final days revealed the system’s failure to help those it claimed to protect. Susan Njoki—founder of Toto Touch [...]

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 [...]

Two weeks have passed since African Uncensored released its exposé on Peter Ayiro, a male teacher at Alliance Girls High School—one of the top high schools, and the oldest girls’ high school, in the nation—accusing him of grooming and sexual abuse. The article, written by alumna Christine Mungai, took the whole nation by storm. It [...]

On July 9, Russia launched 741 aerial weapons against Ukraine using 728 Shahed-type drones and decoys, seven Iskander cruise missiles, and six aeroballistic Kinzhal missiles. Each of these 741 weapons carries enough destructive power to level an average building. According to an Axios report, Russian President Vladimir Putin informed US President Donald Trump during a [...]

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) issued a statement Tuesday that strongly condemned the violence and vote-buying that marred the parliamentary re-run elections held in Ghana’s Ablekuma North constituency. The group criticized what they described as “acts of political thuggery, intimidation, and inducement of voters,” calling these developments a threat to Ghana’s democratic integrity. [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech landscape has steadily narrowed over the past several years as the state began systematically removing independent voices from television channels and newspaper columns. In response, many journalists turned to digital platforms—primarily YouTube—to continue reporting on [...]