The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced Friday that it will begin public hearings on December 2, 2024, for its advisory opinion on states’ obligations regarding climate change. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted by consensus a 2023 resolution seeking an advisory opinion from the ICJ on states’ climate change obligations. The UNGA sought answers [...]

JURIST South Asia Bureau Chief Shashank Pandey contributed to this report. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officially took charge of the investigation into the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital. The move follows a directive from the Calcutta High Court, which expressed concerns over the [...]

A Greenland court ordered on Thursday that anti-whaling activist Paul Watson remain in custody until September 5 in order to ensure his presence in connection with the decision on his extradition to Japan, according to a statement published by Greenland Police. The statement added that the detained activist appealed this decision to Greenland’s High Court, [...]

Bulgaria published a law which aims to ban “propaganda” about LGBTQ+ people in schools on Friday. The controversial law was passed by Parliament on August 8, and it was subsequently accepted by President Rumen Radev in Bulgaria’s State Gazette. The law amends Bulgaria’s Preschool and School Education Act, the policy governing the country’s schools, to include [...]

A 15-year-old boy in Sunderland became the first person in England to be charged with the offence of rioting under s1 of the Public Order Act 1968 by the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) on Thursday after violent anti-immigrant protests broke out across the UK. The charge of riot holds a maximum penalty of 10 years [...]

Vietnamese Activist and YouTuber Nguyen Chi Tuyen was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Hanoi on Thursday for “anti-state propaganda,” according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Tuyen—also known as Anh Chi—was prosecuted under Article 117 of the Penal Code, which prohibits the “making, storing, spreading information, materials, or items [...]

Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and fined three hundred thousand rubles ($3,400) in a closed session of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.  Karelina was arrested on January 27 2024, and detained in a Yekaterinburg jail under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code which covers treason. Specifically, [...]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the storming of the UN Human Rights office in Yemen in a press release on Tuesday. The office in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, was stormed on August 3rd, after an earlier storming in June, resulting in the detainment of 11 UN personnel, [...]

Amnesty International urged Ivory Coast authorities to immediately provide the required support measures to the thousands of Ivorian citizens who have been evicted from their homes since January 2024, according to a report published on Wednesday. The NGO also called for the respect of human rights principles and the suspension of the mass evictions of [...]

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) stated on Wednesday that it will monitor the Italian-Albanian protocol to ensure its compliance with human rights and international law. The protocol approved by Albania’s Constitutional Court in January of this year will permit Italy to process migrants in Albania seeking asylum in the Italian peninsula. The UNHCR has been [...]