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US District Judge Julia Kobick in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s administration, finding that the administration’s passport policy is likely discriminatory against transgender and nonbinary individuals. Judge Kobick stated: The Executive Order and the Passport Policy on their face classify passport applicants on the basis of sex and thus [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday detailing prevalent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), indicating probable war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, titled “They Raped All of Us,” shared the story of 30 women and girls who were raped from April 15, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) decried the escalating obstacles in accessing abortion, contraception and comprehensive sexual education for Romanian women and girls in a report released on Monday. The report, titled “‘It’s Happening Even Without You Noticing’: Increasing Barriers to Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in Romania,” highlights the systematic failure of authorities to uphold [...]

The Georgia State Senate passed the Riley Gaines Act of 2025 on Monday, requiring the designation of “sex-specific athletic teams” and barring transgender women from competing in women’s sports and transgender men from competing in men’s sports unless the team’s designation is “coed.” The legislation also replaces the term “gender” with “sex,” and defines sex [...]

The acting clerk of Ulster County, New York, rejected on Thursday the filing of a $100,000 judgment against a doctor who is accused of unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Refusing to file the summary judgment, Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck invoked New York’s SHIELD Act. He further noted that Ulster County’s decision is [...]

A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday found that Israel’s military operations in Gaza since October 7, 2023 have disproportionately impacted Palestinian women and girls, through their systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence. The report, which was presented by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on [...]

A pressing question to ask is whether — and if yes, how — novel societal harms caused by AI systems are adequately addressed within the contours of existing legal categories and legislation. This article focuses on the risks and harms concerning the rule of law. It will highlight three issues by discussing relevant provisions of [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk informed attendees of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday of the continuous accessibility barriers that people with disabilities face, especially women. Volker Türk contended that the international community failed to uphold Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that [...]

Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content In this article for International Women’s Day,  Alexis Boddy – JURIST UK correspondent, reports on the Equality Now report which highlights the persistence of sexist laws worldwide, thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, with significant rollback of women’s [...]

Women’s rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an “alarming rollback” of fundamental human rights relating to “women’s rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and democratic freedoms” 30 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted. According to Equality Now, important protections for democratic freedoms, [...]