Amnesty International said Wednesday that the new Australian law prohibiting children and young people under 16 from using social media is an “ineffective quick fix” that will not prevent online harms. The criticism was issued by Amnesty International’s technology division in response to a Australian law, effective December 10, which mandates that social media platforms [...]
The Bahá’í International Community (BIC) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that Iranian authorities are dramatically escalating their state-sponsored repression of Baha’is, marked by a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations. The report documents over 750 incidents, including arrests, home raids and imprisonments, targeting members of Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case with the potential to overturn a long-established limit on the president’s power to fire the leaders of independent agencies. The limit was established in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1935). The present case, Trump v. Slaughter, centers on the legality of President Donald [...]
Amnesty International stated on Monday that Nepal’s law enforcement agencies used excessive force to suppress September’s youth-led demonstrations, also known as the Gen Z protests, resulting in deaths, injuries and property damage. The organization asserted that this conduct violated international human rights law and urged Nepalese authorities to investigate these incidents and hold those responsible [...]
Editor’s note: This is Day 3 of JURIST’s coverage of Luigi Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1 and Day 2. One year after the December 4 shooting of Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, Luigi Mangione returned to court for day three of critical suppression hearings in his New York state case before [...]
Ten years ago, world leaders in Paris committed to limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Since then, the average global temperature was recorded above 1.5°C for the first time in 2024, prompting questions about the relevance of this target. However, a new report [...]
Egypt’s rental market went from the back to the front of a national conversation overnight. The New Rental Law (Law No. 164 of 2025), which was signed by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and entered into force in September, has led both landlords and tenants to use Google and social media in a competition to grasp [...]
The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. Two high-profile extradition cases unfolding this month highlight India’s obligations under domestic and international law: the potential extradition of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India back to her home country, and India’s efforts to extradite diamond merchant Mehul [...]
The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution under the Eighth Amendment. Joseph Clifton Smith was sentenced to death in Alabama for a 1997 [...]
A UN expert on Sunday called for the reversal of the ban on women staff entering UN premises in Afghanistan, condemning the Taliban measures as a violation of UN principles of equality and human rights. According to Susan Ferguson, the UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan, the ban on Afghan women staff and contractors entering [...]
