Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized Sri Lanka’s government Monday for its proposed legislation aimed at addressing wartime abuses. The Commission for Truth, Unity and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka Bill, introduced on January... Read more »
Georgia Department of Corrections has tightened its efforts to impede the release of information about its prisons as it faces record numbers of deaths from homicides, suicides and drug overdoses since 2020,... Read more »
In Mississippi, allegations of jailhouse rape, brutal beatings and corrupt acts by sheriffs and their deputies regularly go ignored by the state, even despite ample evidence, Ilyssa Daly, Jerry Mitchell and Rachel... Read more »
Amnesty International on Monday accused Meta, the parent company of Facebook, of contributing to human rights abuses against the Tigrayan community in Ethiopia, stemming from an armed conflict between forces aligned with... Read more »
The UK’s Brook House Inquiry published a report Tuesday detailing an investigation into the mistreatment of individuals detained at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in the UK. The inquiry, chaired by... Read more »
The Council of the European Union (EU) announced new sanctions Friday on six people it says committed human rights violations in Crimea. The six individuals were singled out by the EU in... Read more »
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Mashal Asim Khan is an LLB student in the University of London ... Read more »