Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India. The Supreme Court of India delivered strong criticism against two lower courts, ruling that a woman whose dental practice she maintained while living [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called on the Philippines to apprehend Senator Ronald dela Rosa, expressing deep concern over reports that he fled the Senate building to evade an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Amnesty International Philippines executive director Ritz Lee Santos III stated: “We are deeply alarmed at the obstruction of justice and chaotic [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that the armed group M23 committed human rights abuses against civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during its month-long occupation of the city of Uvira starting in December 2025, calling for a criminal investigation into these acts to ensure that all those responsible are held [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Yale School of Medicine of illegal discrimination on racial lines during its admissions process. The DOJ specifically claimed that “Black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with consistently lower academic qualifications than their White and Asian counterparts.” Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, wrote [...]

US District Judge Richard Leon on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, finding that they were based solely on her encouraging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute Israeli officials. Judge Leon made preliminary findings that President Donald Trump’s administration likely violated [...]

The Court of King’s Bench of Alberta quashed the province’s separation petition on Wednesday, holding that electoral authorities failed to uphold the duty to consult First Nations before approving the referendum proposal. This is the second time the provincial court has barred the province’s separation petition. Justice Shaina Leonard held that the chief electoral officer [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to remain available by mail and through telehealth nationwide, staying a Fifth Circuit order that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement while Louisiana’s challenge to the drug’s regulation proceeds in the lower courts. The brief, unsigned order in Danco Laboratories, LLC v. Louisiana and [...]

Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday released a research briefing asserting that the US government is violating international human rights law by approving lithium mining projects across Nevada without securing the approval of impacted Indigenous peoples. The research briefing focuses on three Nevada lithium mining projects: The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, the Nevada North Lithium Project, and [...]

“Gig” workers around the world experience long hours, unpredictable and declining pay, and serious safety risks as platform companies sidestep labor protections, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday in a report. HRW urges governments to adopt binding standards in an International Labour Organization (ILO) treaty on platform work, negotiations for which are scheduled for June [...]