Navajo Nation officials have said that at least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being detained ...

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss the violence occurring in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Thousands of protesters gathered Sunday outside Greece's parliament demanding justice for the 57 people who died two years ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced Monday the establishment of an Ethics Council tasked with providing advisory guidance to the President of the court on matters pertaining to ...

Uttarakhand became the first Indian state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Monday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the UCC alongside an official online portal, marking a ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that Libyan authorities have used a 'litany of overbroad and draconian legacy laws' to suppress civil rights activists and organizations. The group said ...

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 ...

INTERPOL and AFRIPOL conducted an international counter-terrorism operation in East Africa on Monday. The operation resulted in the arrest of 37 suspects and the seizure of small arms and heavy ...

Form Content  In this interview for JURIST,  Lana Osei JURIST's Chief West Africa Correspondent based in Ghana, and Halima Abena Kyerewah Adam from ...

Egyptian officials have arbitrarily investigated and detained human rights activists over peaceful dissent ahead of Tuesday's UN Universal Period Review (UPR), Amnesty International said Monday.

The Council of the European Union extended its restrictive economic measures against Russia for another six months for its continued war in Ukraine on Monday. The measures will now be in force until ...

Vanesa Escobar is a JURIST correspondent in Peru and a law graduate of Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco.  On December 10th Peru suffered yet another murder. This time, however, the ...