Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced Monday that it filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Palestinian journalists being killed or injured during their work in Gaza. In the complaint, RSF asks the court to investigate crimes against no less than nine Palestinian reporters since December 15, 2023 and the killing of more [...]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday began its first day of public hearings in Brazil to address the human rights obligations of states concerning the climate crisis, based on the American Convention on Human Rights. According to the IACHR’s press release, the hearings were marked by discussions on mitigating the effects of [...]
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Russia is removing the Taliban from the country’s list of prohibited terrorist organizations, according to state-run news outlet RIA Novosti. According to the special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the [...]
The Philippines protested China’s imposition of a unilateral, four-month fishing ban in the South China Sea, its Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) stated in a press release on Monday. The ban has been imposed annually since 1999 and is expected to last until September 16 this year. Calling on China to “cease and desist from [...]
The Japanese prime minister’s office issued an emergency warning through its J-Alert nationwide warning system on Monday, urging residents in southern Japan to take cover indoors or in a sheltered area due to the possible threat of a North Korean ballistic missile. Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi said that the missile disappeared from [...]
Police in Sargodha, Pakistan filed a first information report against 500 people on Sunday for allegedly engaging in mob violence against a Christian man accused of desecrating the Quran a day before in Sargodha’s Mujahid Colony, according to local news outlet Pakistan Today. The report against the 500 people invoked sections 7 and 11WW of [...]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced Sunday that the Houthi rebel group in Yemen has unilaterally released 113 detainees in Sana’a, the capital city that came under Houthi control in September 2014. The ICRC facilitated the release at the request of the Houthi National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs. ICRC’s head of delegation [...]
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on Sunday that a Russian strike on a hardware store in Kharkiv, Ukraine a day before killed and injured at least 17 and 48 people, respectively. Five people also remain missing. The victims of the strike were employees and customers of the store. The attack by Russian troops took [...]
The operator of New Caledonia’s La Tontouta International Airport announced on Sunday that the airport will remain closed until June 2 following the breakout of violent protests in response to the proposed constitutional amendment by France’s National Assembly on May 17. The High Commission of the Republic of New Caledonia also announced the airport’s closure, which [...]
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at [...]
