US climate rights watchdog Climate Rights International said in a report on Monday that the Kingfisher oil project along Lake Albert in Uganda fuels widespread human rights violations of the local population. The report stated that in addition to environmental damage that threatens their livelihoods, locals are subjected to forced evictions and disappearances, labor rights violations [...]

The UK foreign secretary David Lammy announced on Monday that 30 out of 350 arms export licenses to Israel would be immediately suspended, as the export of certain arms to Israel may allegedly risk breaching international humanitarian law and the UK’s strategic export controls. Lammy said that the trade and business secretary would not suspend [...]

Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) on Monday rejected a decision of the country’s Administrative Court reinstating three candidates for its presidential election on October 6. In a press conference midday yesterday, the ISIE announced its approval of incumbent President Kais Saied, Zouhair Magzhaoui and Ayachi Zammel as the final list of candidates for [...]

The US Department of Justice has unsealed criminal charges against Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar over his participation in the October 7 attacks on Israel. The criminal complaint charges Sinwar, as well as the deceased Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mohemmed Deif, with a variety of terrorism offenses including: Conspiracy to provide material support for [...]

Gaza health officials announced Monday that Israeli airstrikes over the preceding 24 hours resulted in the deaths of at least 48 Palestinians across the region. The Israeli military carried out the strikes amid a polio vaccination campaign conducted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The campaign was put into [...]

Myanmar’s military court sentenced 144 civilians from Rakhine State to prison for their alleged support to insurgent armed groups, local media reported on Monday. The military court’s verdict comes more than three months after the arrest of the sentenced civilians in a military attack on their village Byain Phyu in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine [...]

Dutch prosecutors announced their intent on Monday to seek prison sentences of up to 14 years for two Pakistani nationals accused of inciting threats on the life of prominent far-right politician Geert Wilders. The case is currently being tried in absentia, in the absence of the accused or a lawyer representing them. The Public Prosecutor’s [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content, and a Ph.D. student at Keele University in the UK.  On August 24, Paris was the venue for an international conference sponsored by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), dedicated to confronting one of the darkest episodes in Iran’s history: [...]

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 3L.  Thousands of Israelis took to the streets across Israel on Sunday to protest following the recent recovery of the bodies of six hostages from tunnels in Rafah. [...]

The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil on Monday unanimously upheld the decision to suspend the platform “X,” formerly Twitter, across the country. The suspension comes after X failed to comply with court directives requiring it to appoint a local legal representative and settle outstanding fines that have accumulated to over $3 million USD. The [...]