In 1996, when Professor Bernard Hibbitts first established JURIST, few could have foreseen the impact the project would have. Whether measured in terms of the individual lives it has touched, its ...

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...

Media companies tied to US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Thursday against Brazillian Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of violating a US-based far-right ...

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Tuesday that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sentenced former Guatemalan congressman Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar ...

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the US government for systematically dismantling the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border, asserting that current policies violate both domestic ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Thursday that children were facing extreme violations of rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The committee, established to help ...

The New York Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the state's Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government on Tuesday in an action brought by former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to overturn a lower court's injunction that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship. The ...

Tunisian Human Rights activist Sihem Bensedrine was released from jail after a ruling from the country's Court of Appeal on Wednesday, AFP and Jeune Afrique reported. Despite the UN's demand for her ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday stating that only the 'President and the Attorney General ...

I am finally free. They may have imprisoned me, but they never took my spirit. --Leonard Peltier, Feb. 18, 2025 Native ...

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened Monday to take Google to court if its map continues to show US-based users the label 'Gulf of America' instead of 'Gulf of Mexico.' President Donald ...