Sonja Rzepsiki is a JURIST Senior Editor. She attended the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan as part of a group from the Vermont ...

Form Content In 2023, a woman was killed every ten minutes by a partner or family member, a UN report said. While figures like this may seem ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Saturday a bill that provides debt relief to recruits who sign up to fight in Ukraine and their spouses. Federal law No. 391 was previously passed ...

The United Nations (UN) said on Friday that Myanmar unprecedently has the highest number of civilian causalities from ...

Albania's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on Friday condemned the deactivation of addresses of ethnic Albanian ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) condemned Iran for its insufficient cooperation regarding its nuclear program, ...

Negotiators from the Association of Small Islands States (AOSIS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) walked out of ...

The Core Group on the Establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine has reaffirmed its ...

A US federal judge on Thursday denied Target Corporation's (Target) motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging the ...

William Hibbitts is JURIST's Deputy Editorial Director, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He filed this dispatch from Halifax.  The atmosphere in Halifax was marked by contrasts Saturday. On ...

The Nicaraguan parliament on Friday unanimously approved partial constitutional reforms proposed by President Daniel Ortega.

Texas’s State Board of Education (SBOE) approved an optional Bible-centered curriculum for elementary schools on Friday. The ...