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Once upon a time in America, there was a political movement that saw the adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow as misguided at best, nefarious at worst.  It asserted that the United States government only pursued such an antagonism as a way of feeding the military industrial complex that enriched its elites and the politicians [...]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that hunger in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp could worsen after the agency temporarily paused food assistance to the camp, citing intense fighting and escalating violence. A spokesperson for WFP stated that the agency had no other choice but to evacuate the staff, stressing that residents of [...]

The Office of the Attorney General was established some 200 years before the first woman ever served in the role (Janet Reno, 1993-2001). It would take an additional decade for the first person of color to hold the office (Alberto Gonzales, 2005-2007). Since the passage of the 1789 Judiciary Act — the law that created [...]

Human rights faced severe tests worldwide in 2024, with democratic institutions under strain and humanitarian law repeatedly violated in major conflicts, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual report released Thursday. The 546-page “World Report 2025” reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries, emphasizing the devastating human tolls of conflicts in Gaza, [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Tuesday sentenced 45 defendants for conspiracy to commit subversion, with prison terms ranging from 50 to 120 months, depending on their alleged roles in an unauthorized primary election staged by pro-democracy groups in 2020. The case stems from pro-democracy activists’ efforts beginning in January 2020 to gain [...]

Google said on Friday that it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has made with local news organizations if the country passes the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, which will force tech companies to pay publishers for content appearing on their feeds. In a blog post by Google’s New [...]

Press freedom organizations and human rights groups collectively called on the EU in a letter on Monday to take action against Israeli authorities’ media freedom violations. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), alongside 59 other signatories, including Human Rights Watch, petitioned European leaders to “take action against the Israeli authorities’ unprecedented killing of journalists and [...]

Palestinian militant groups, led by Hamas’s armed wing, committed “numerous” war crimes and crimes against humanity in their October 7 attack on southern Israel, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a 236-page report released on Wednesday. For the report, titled “I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind’: Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault [...]

David Odero is a law student at Kisii University and a special correspondent for JURIST. He filed this dispatch from Nairobi.   Sleep is for the weak and the wicked, as the saying goes, and this sentiment never made more sense than on the morning of Tuesday, 25 June. Individuals alleged to be members of the [...]

At least five people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday when Kenyan police fired on protesters attempting to storm the parliament in Nairobi during demonstrations against a proposed tax increase. “A section of the parliament is on fire,” one source told JURIST from the scene. “Multiple people are said to have been shot and [...]