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“For by wise counsel, thou shalt make thy war.” Proverbs 24:6 Though one might think otherwise, there is no Palestinian state at present, nor has there ever been such a state in the past. Still, once the current Gaza War comes to an end – and whatever the tangible correlates of any war termination agreements [...]

Al Jazeera announced Saturday that it planned to file a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel after the death of Al Jazeera news photographer Samer Abu Daqqa in Gaza in a Friday drone strike, which has been alleged to have been carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). In [...]

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Roman Catholic diocese for the region, accused an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sniper of killing two women and injuring seven other church members at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza on Saturday. The statement said the church is where the “majority of Christian families taken refuge since the start [...]

JURIST Deputy News Managing Editor Lou Kettering | U. Pittsburgh School of Law contributed to this report. The US and the UK introduced new sanctions on Wednesday against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and individuals linked to both groups. This comes as the UK’s second round of October 7 attack-related sanctions and the US’s fourth. The [...]

This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 9 we see the anniversary of the Genocide Convention, signed on the December 9, 1948, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed 75 years ago. It represents an an important occasion that aims to raise [...]

The UN Human Rights Office released a statement on Tuesday condemning Iran’s execution of 17-year-old Hamidreza Azari and 22-year-old Milad Zohrevand on November 24. The office urged Iran to impose a moratorium on death penalty cases and to cease “using criminal procedures to punish political activists and others for exercising their rights to freedom of [...]

Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws, KC, is one of the UK’s most established lawyers, a bencher at Gray’s Inn and a member of the House of Lords. Kennedy is also a broadcaster,  journalist and lecturer. She has not only acted in many of the most prominent cases of the last decade but has promoted civil [...]

In this first-of-its-kind JURIST “global dispatch” on a single topic, 15 law students and young lawyers from around the world, all of them JURIST correspondents from outside of Israel and Palestine, join together to offer a  panoramic view of how the current Gaza conflict is unfolding in their countries and regions. Beyond the headlines, they [...]

Farzona Kayumova is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Uzbekistan and a law student at Tashkent State University of Law.  President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the 16th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on November 9 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. The Economic Cooperation Organization is a regional intergovernmental organization established in 1985 [...]

The Chinese government has increased mosque closures in the northern Ningxia region and Gansu province, according to a report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The government has previously faced international scrutiny for its treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority. The report describes the closure of mosques in [...]