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“It has been such a nightmare. You just feel powerless; you can’t comprehend any way to survive it … I long for the return of my calm and tranquil country — a country where children can live in peace.” “Air strikes have been indiscriminately killing people — all kinds of people: children, babies, doctors, journalists; [...]

JURIST Assistant Editor Fiona Tsamny | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA also contributed to this report. Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, voted 382 to 234 to approve legislation Friday aimed at streamlining the path to citizenship for immigrants by abolishing long standing restrictions on holding dual nationalities. The law, championed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s [...]

A grand jury declined to return an indictment Thursday against Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman facing an abuse of corpse charge after suffering a miscarriage in her home. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. The grand [...]

On Jan. 25, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plans to execute Kenneth Smith by forcing him to breathe pure nitrogen gas, an untested execution method with profound legal and ethical consequences. Death penalty abolitionists worldwide have railed against this form of capital punishment, but these efforts have thus far failed to alter the state’s [...]

The US Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit found on Wednesday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis violated a local prosecutor’s First Amendment rights under the US Constitution when he suspended the prosecutor for refusing to enforce state laws surrounding access to reproductive health. The case has now been sent back down to the trial court [...]

LGBTQ rights group Lambda Legal announced a lawsuit Monday seeking to block enforcement of a Louisiana ban on gender-affirming procedures for transgender youth. The civil rights organization prepared the lawsuit, along with the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation of Harvard Law and a Louisiana law firm, on behalf of five Louisiana minors and [...]

The Florida Division of Elections released data Friday confirming that the group Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) successfully gathered the required number of signatures to put an amendment on the Florida ballot to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution. FPF Campaign Director Lauren Brenzel celebrated the milestone, stating, “The fact that we only launched our [...]

Several Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka protested outside the UN refugee agency’s office this week due to the announced closure of its Sri Lanka office at the end of 2024. The refugees also submitted an appeal to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, calling for the agency not to abandon them without arranging [...]

Pakistan’s Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACEP) initiated legal proceedings on Tuesday against former Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid and her daughter. ACEP accused them of breaching the merit system and abusing their authority. ACEP reported that the anti-corruption agency had lodged a case against former health minister for allegedly appointing her daughter Dr. Ayesha Ali as [...]

Two prominent international aid organizations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), announced they were forced to suspend operations in Sudan after their facilities were looted in the midst of escalating conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the country’s army on Thursday. The organizations expressed deep concern [...]