The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed an application on Wednesday for an arrest warrant against Myanmar’s military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, over alleged crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya minority. ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC announced the move, citing “reasonable grounds to believe” that Min Aung Hlaing [...]

Istanbul police detained dozens of protesters on Monday during demonstrations calling for stronger protections against violence targeting women in Türkiye. The protest, held on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, saw police blocking access to İstiklal Avenue by closing surrounding streets to prevent the gathering. The We Will Stop Femicides Platform, [...]

The United Kingdom Supreme Court began hearing a legal challenge centered on the definition of “woman” on Tuesday, marking the latest development in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights campaign group and the Scottish government. The case follows a decision in November last year when the appellant, For Women Scotland Limited, lost its Inner [...]

Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad.  On Wednesday, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)  party announced that it was calling off its protest in light of what it described as the government’s plan to turn the [...]

Abu Bakar Khan and Noor Ul Huda are JURIST staff correspondents in Pakistan and recent graduates of Punjab University Law College. They filed this dispatch from Lahore. On November 13, Imran Khan, the incarcerated ex-prime minister of Pakistan and the party leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), issued a “final call” for nationwide protests scheduled for [...]

Police forces clashed violently with supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan in Pakistan on Monday as nationwide protests erupted against Khan’s detention, local media reported. The confrontations led to injuries among both demonstrators and police officers as well as the death of four Pakistani paramilitary officers. Protests began on Sunday when demonstrators across Pakistan [...]

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a South African opposition party, brought a case to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday seeking to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The proceedings relate to allegations stemming from the “Farmgate” scandal, which involves claims that Ramaphosa concealed a burglary at his private game farm in 2020 and failed [...]

US president-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to enact a 25 percent tariff hike on all goods from Canada, Mexico, and China on his Truth Social account on Monday, as a measure to combat illegal entrance into the US as well as “crime and drugs”. Trump announced a further 10 percent tariff on goods coming [...]

Abdellatif Jouahri, governor of Morocco’s central bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, announced on Tuesday that a draft law regulating cryptocurrencies is undergoing adoption. The draft law will seek to clarify and oversee cryptocurrency activities in Morocco, balancing innovation with financial stability and consumer protection. Jouahri emphasized that the central bank has been working on the legislation in [...]

In this occasional series of dispatches and commentaries, JURIST staff and correspondents from around the world reflect on the implications of Donald Trump’s US election victory and some of its likely implications for their regions. In this dispatch, Maria Paz Rodriguez, JURIST’s Chief of Staff for South America, offers some thoughts on what Trump’s victory [...]