Former prison nurse Jesse Vroegh filed a lawsuit in Polk County District Court on Monday under the Iowa Civil Rights Act and equal protection clause of Iowa Constitution claiming the Iowa’s Department of Corrections (DOC) discriminated against him due to his transgender identity. Vroegh claims he was denied access to men’s restrooms, men’s lockers rooms, [...]

A Nevada homeowner on Monday filed suit against Wells Fargo & Co in a San Francisco federal court accusing the bank of falsely charging consumers certain mortgage fees. Borrowers applying for mortgages must usually pay a rate-lock extension fee to set a promised interest rate beyond a certain time period when there has been a [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Sarah Silverhardt of St. John’s University discusses the implications of continued ignorance of serial rapists on college campuses… Unlike your Sunday marathon of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, this heinous crime was real. Two Virginia students both abducted and murdered, and both body remains were found five miles apart on a [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged people to refrain from violence against Myanmar security forces, for authorities to adhere to human rights law, and for authorities to prohibit use of provocative media usage in the northern regions of Rakhine state. According to Zeid, the acts of violence committed [...]

Multiple UN experts on Tuesday urged all member states to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as the rates of enforced disappearances are increasing in multiple countries in every region around the world. The experts argued that in today’s political climate, it is unacceptable that enforced disappearances, a [...]

The California Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling on Monday that will make it easier for the state to get tax propositions on ballots. The court’s ruling relied on its interpretation of Proposition 218 , a constitutional initiative approved by California voters in 1996 that was intended to assure that all taxes on Californian tax [...]

In an open letter addressed to representatives of the Member and Observer States of the United Nations Humans Rights Council , 56 national, regional and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) called for an “independent, international inquiry” into violations of human rights in Yemen . The letter refers to reports from September 2015 and September 2016, which [...]

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) voiced its concerns on Tuesday regarding the lack of drinking water accessible to children in war torn countries. According to UNICEF, more than 180 million people are cut off from water in countries of conflict including Yemen, Syria and Nigeria. Generally, inhabitants of these countries are four times more likely [...]

Chile’s president, Michelle Bachelet introduced a bill on Tuesday that would legalize same-sex marriage. Bachelet said “We believe that it is not ethical or just to place artificial limits on love or deny essential rights based solely on the sex of the partners.” The marriage bill would also allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The [...]

Human rights groups on Monday filed suits against Jagath Jayasuriya, a former Sri Lanka army general, for alleged war crimes and human rights violations he committed during the 2009 civil war in Sri Lanka. The suits are based on his role as a commander in the Sri Lanka military during the final phase of the [...]