President William Ruto on Thursday dismissed his cabinet and the attorney general, save for the deputy president and the Prime Cabinet Secretary (PCS). In a televised press release, the president directed that in the absence of these cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries would coordinate the ministries until the next cabinet is constituted. According to the president: [...]

Professor Andrew Clapham of the Geneva Graduate Institute is a leading expert in the interplay of war and international law. In his timely new book “War,” Clapham explores the modern relevance of the concept of war and how it shapes our understanding of rights and obligations in both national and international law, questioning whether the [...]

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore. All eyes are now fixed on the Supreme Court of Pakistan to [...]

The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled on Wednesday that Nigeria violated the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in its response to the protests that took place in October 2020, according to a statement published by the court. In its ruling, the [...]

Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have withdrawn attempted suicide and consuming alcohol charges against Irish woman Tori Towey, a lawyer assisting her case said on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday. Towey, an Irish flight attendant with Emirates Airlines since April 2023, was briefly imprisoned and had her passport confiscated and destroyed, according to the [...]

Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation (also known as Grassy Narrows), located in Ontario, Canada, highlighted Thursday the severe impact of mercury contamination on their community before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the first virtual public hearing in the case. The IACHR addresses human rights and violations in the Organization of American States [...]

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal certified three questions in activist Tam Tak-chi’s bid to appeal his sedition convictions to the Court of Final Appeal under section 32(2) of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Ordinance on Wednesday. Section 32(2) requires the mid-level appeals court to determine whether a case involves an important point of [...]

It has been a longstanding principle of judicial restraint in the US that judges ought not to read their politics or personal preferences into the laws of the republic. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, dissenting in the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges, wrote that “Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the Zimbabwe army commander’s support for the country’s ruling party threatens the integrity of the country’s future elections as well as the rights of voters participating in them. The rights group called on the Zimbabwe government to end the military’s involvement in partisan politics, urging authorities to [...]

Human rights organization Cristosal reported on Wednesday that 265 people passed away and 79,211 people were arrested in El Salvador amid the state of emergency that was declared on March 27, 2022. The state of emergency suspended certain constitutional freedoms in response to gang violence. According to Cristosal, detainees were “orced into deplorable conditions”, where [...]