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Amnesty International (AI) stated on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were marked by authoritarian behavior and discriminatory policies that weakened the rule of law and damaged human rights protections. Mass deportations, attacks of freedom of expression and the erosion of rights for women and LGBTQIA+ communities, have created in the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday reassuring the US civil society groups of the human rights group’s solidarity amidst Trump administration funding cuts. The human rights group highlighted that the funding cuts are “not a policy shift, but a direct and unjustifiable attack on the work of many important organizations.” The statement underlined [...]

Former US Representative George Santos was sentenced on Friday to more than seven years in federal prison. This ends years of controversial proceedings that saw Santos plead guilty to fraud and identity theft. A Republican from New York, Santos was elected to Congress in 2022. A small Long Island newspaper first raised concerns about Santos [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Harvard University filed a lawsuit in US federal court on Monday seeking to block the Trump administration’s freeze on more than $2.2 billion in federal research funding to the university, arguing that the government’s action violates its Constitutional rights and undermines the autonomy of higher education institutions. The complaint, filed in US District Court for [...]

In this interview, an anonymous Palestinian legal and political science scholar speaks with Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas about his life in Gaza under Israeli occupation before and after October 7, 2023, his perspective on the Western world’s response to Palestinian suffering, and what he wishes the world knew about Gaza. What was your life [...]

After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia faced a response from the international community in the form of sanctions. Since then, almost 22,000 sanctions have been imposed on the country to target various spheres of the Russian economy and complicate waging the war. Over the last three years, the EU [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the Maine Department of Education (DOE) on Wednesday over its policies that allow transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports. The lawsuit alleges Maine’s policies violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which protects citizens under any education program or activity receiving federal funding from being [...]