The Ontario Superior Court of Justice barred the regional municipality of Waterloo from removing encampments on Thursday. The court held that the municipality’s site-specific bylaw is not only discriminatory but also infringes the right to life, liberty and security of the encampment residents. Justice Michael R. Gibson held that the municipality’s bylaw, allowing forced evictions [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned Thursday that journalists covering the FIFA World Cup 2026 may face hostility from the authorities. The warning comes with a travel advisory and legal rights guide for journalists. The group recorded recent actions taken by US immigration authorities against journalists for their work. Some examples are the deportations [...]

Nine minor students and a coalition of community groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts education officials, alleging the state’s school districting illegally segregates Black and Latino children into an inferior, “two-tiered” education system. The complaint names the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as [...]

Taiwan concluded its three-day Review Meeting on the Two International Human Rights Covenants on May 15, followed by a press conference. The death penalty emerged as a primary focus. Taiwan’s Review Report on the Two International Human Rights Covenants is a governmental self-assessment of its compliance with UN international human rights standards—specifically the International Covenant [...]

Griffins Abuora is a Kenya School of Law student based in Kisumu, where he reports on legal, policy, and human rights developments in Kenya for JURIST. The arrest of five activists in Nairobi on Tuesday, May 12, during the Africa Forward Summit, once again placed Kenya at the center of a difficult debate: how should [...]

Sophia Kuhnke is a law student at Università Bocconi School of Law and a JURIST correspondent covering recent developments in Italy.  On Tuesday, May 12, the Bari Court of Appeal (Corte di Appello di Bari) in southern Italy delivered a ruling legally recognizing three parents for a four-year-old.  This case, serving as a landmark decision [...]

A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday ordered that former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte remain in custody in The Hague. The judges found that “there is a real and substantial risk” that Duterte could “abscond or obstruct justice.” In making their decision, the chamber summarized the Pre-Trial Chamber I Decision on the [...]

A group of top human rights organizations issued a joint public letter on Wednesday ahead of the highly anticipated EU-China conference, urging the Members of the European Parliament to put human rights at the center of attention. The letter calls on the European Union to stop prioritizing business interests over human rights, declaring that Europe’s [...]

A Dutch privacy advocacy group filed a class-action lawsuit against US-based tech company AppLovin on Thursday, alleging the company unlawfully collected and traded the personal data of millions of Dutch users, including an estimated 1.5 million children, through hidden tracking software embedded in popular mobile applications. Amnesty International Netherlands backed the legal challenge. The lawsuit, [...]

The Federal Court of Australia fined X (formerly Twitter) aooroximately $465,000 USD in a decision on Thursday. The fine stems from the company’s failure to disclose information to Australia’s online safety watchdog regarding the steps it had taken to prevent child exploitation on the site. X has also been ordered to pay the $71,000 court [...]