The Indonesian Parliament amended a law on Thursday to formally expand the military’s role in civilian affairs, triggering nationwide protests and drawing sharp criticism from human rights organizations. The parliament amended multiple articles of the National Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) Act, Law No. 34/2004. Key changes included revisions to Article 47, which will increase the [...]

The Perth District Court on Thursday convicted a 19-year-old man for sharing Islamic State beheading videos online via social media. The conviction, followed by a sentence of three years imprisonment, marks the first since the enactment of Australia’s new counterterrorism laws in 2024. According to the Australian Federal Police, the content found on the man’s [...]

The Trump administration halted $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday in response to the university’s transgender sports policies. The announcement was first reported by Fox News and later reposted by Rapid Response 47 on X (formerly Twitter). Rapid Response 47 is an account created by the Trump administration to respond to [...]

A jury in the US District Court for the District of Albuquerque convicted failed former New Mexico House of Representatives candidate Solomon Peña on Wednesday of charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic state and local lawmakers in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The shootings occurred between [...]

The European Commission announced preliminary findings against Apple and Google, charging them with two violations of the Digital Markets Act on Wednesday. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the EU’s law to regulate the power of large digital platforms to ensure a fair and contestable market. The European Commission designated gatekeepers under the DMA, which [...]

Russian online media RusNews revealed Wednesday two letters from an imprisoned journalist and anti-war activist, Maria Ponomarenko, which demonstrate her current suicidal tendency. Amnesty International urged the authorities to protect her from further self-harm and release her immediately. RusNews stated that the Russian authorities censored the letters, which indicated her suffering in prison and asked [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Wednesday urging Mexican authorities to conduct a “thorough” and “impartial” investigation into a possible mass killing site outside the city of Guadalajara, in Jalisco state. According to the report, a local search collective called the Jalisco Search Warriors on March 5 uncovered a remote ranch site where [...]

The UN warned on Wednesday that the recent surge of gang violence in Haiti has led to the forced displacement of over 60,000 citizens, marking a record in the country’s already dire humanitarian situation. The UN noted that the escalation of gang violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has spread to several neighborhoods outside the capital [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

The United Nations has stood for nearly eight decades as a bastion of hope for international cooperation and peace. As we witness its gradual erosion, marked by a troubling drift towards irrelevance among major global powers, it becomes imperative for member states — particularly those in the Global South—to rally behind the UN’s core principles. [...]