Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has settled its first national case with a school district over harm to children’s mental health.  The terms of the settlement with Breathitt County School District in eastern Kentucky are confidential. However, the district initially sought over $60 million to cover the costs of treating the injuries caused [...]

A UN expert on Friday praised a ruling by Colombia’s Supreme Court upholding a 20-year prison sentence for a man found guilty of offering money to young children in exchange for sexual acts. The ruling officially recognises commercial sexual exploitation as part of the country’s wider system of violence against minors. In commenting on the [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations body, and the African Medicines Agency (AMA), an African Union body, signed a Framework Agreement for Collaboration on Friday, aiming to strengthen regulatory systems and improve access to safe, efficient and quality-assured health products across the African continent. The Framework Agreement for Collaboration establishes a partnership between [...]

The labor union at South Korea’s Samsung Electronics held off on launching a planned 18-day strike Wednesday after reaching a last-minute, tentative wage deal with the company management, alleviating immediate concerns about a potential operational shutdown at the world’s leading memory chip maker. The tentative agreement comes roughly six months after the union’s formation in [...]

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice barred the regional municipality of Waterloo from removing encampments on Thursday. The court held that the municipality’s site-specific bylaw is not only discriminatory but also infringes the right to life, liberty and security of the encampment residents. Justice Michael R. Gibson held that the municipality’s bylaw, allowing forced evictions [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned Thursday that journalists covering the FIFA World Cup 2026 may face hostility from the authorities. The warning comes with a travel advisory and legal rights guide for journalists. The group recorded recent actions taken by US immigration authorities against journalists for their work. Some examples are the deportations [...]

Nine minor students and a coalition of community groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts education officials, alleging the state’s school districting illegally segregates Black and Latino children into an inferior, “two-tiered” education system. The complaint names the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as [...]

Taiwan concluded its three-day Review Meeting on the Two International Human Rights Covenants on May 15, followed by a press conference. The death penalty emerged as a primary focus. Taiwan’s Review Report on the Two International Human Rights Covenants is a governmental self-assessment of its compliance with UN international human rights standards—specifically the International Covenant [...]

Griffins Abuora is a Kenya School of Law student based in Kisumu, where he reports on legal, policy, and human rights developments in Kenya for JURIST. The arrest of five activists in Nairobi on Tuesday, May 12, during the Africa Forward Summit, once again placed Kenya at the center of a difficult debate: how should [...]