US President Donald Trump’s administration urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to enforce a ban on transgender people serving in the military. The Trump administration argued that since the ban concrns a medical condition of gender dysphoria, it demands the lowest level of constitutional review, known as rational basis review. The administration claimed the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday condemned a lawsuit filed by the Kyrgyz prosecutor’s office against the independent media outlet Aprel TV for alleged “negative” and “destructive” coverage of government activities. CPJ said that such practices of closing media outlets is unacceptable in a democratic society. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Oktyabrsky District [...]

A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction in favor of teacher groups, blocking the Department of Education’s (DOE) attempt to withhold federal funding from schools that implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This represents a legal setback to the Trump administration’s effort to end DEI. Judge Landya McCafferty concluded [...]

The DC federal court on Thursday blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping March executive order that sought to impose new voting requirements nationwide and reshape federal election procedures. The challenge was brought by advocacy groups led by the League of United Latin American Citizens. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the president lacked the [...]

Amnesty International condemned Thursday the Dominican Republic’s new health protocol that requires migrants to provide documentation and pay fees to access public health services. The group argued that the new protocol is discriminatory and may violate international human rights standards. On April 6, the government announced a new health protocol consisting of 15 migration measures. [...]

Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s Senior Editor for Long-Form Content, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, about his upcoming book From Independence to Aragalaya: A Modern History of Sri Lanka. In this interview, Salter [...]

As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime accountable for widespread human rights violations. One effective approach would be to establish a Special Domestic Criminal Court to prosecute individuals responsible for crimes committed [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday ordered the pretrial chamber to reconsider Israel’s objections to the exercise of the ICC’s jurisdiction regarding arrest warrants issued against Israeli officials. Israel argued in the present case that the pretrial chamber prematurely “rejected the jurisdictional challenge on procedural grounds, without substantive scrutiny of Israel’s serious objections to [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations for New York (CAIR-NY), along with Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP, on Thursday sued Orange County, New York, officials for religious discrimination against plaintiff Tammi Green. The 27-page complaint outlines multiple instances where county jail officials are alleged to have violated Green’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. According to [...]