This op-ed was submitted to JURIST prior to the joint US-Israeli military strikes on Iran that began on February 28, 2026.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Pakistan authorities on Thursday to quash the conviction of Junaid Hafeez, who was sentenced to death in 2019 under the country's blasphemy provisions after being ...

Amnesty International on Friday warned that recent flooding in Mozambique underscores widening global inequalities in climate responsibility, as major emitting states scale back environmental ...

A group of UN experts on Friday called for the United Kingdom to guarantee that the current reviews of statutory guidance under the Equality Act 2010 align with international human rights standards ...

On Saturday morning, February 28th, the United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes across Iran, hitting targets in Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, and other cities across twenty-four ...

South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced Friday that the government has conditionally approved a request by Google to export 1:5,000 scale high-precision ...

UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned acts of “extreme violence” committed by the M23 (Movement du 23 Mars) armed group against human rights defenders in the North and South Kivu provinces ...

Since January 2026, Pakistan’s Tirah Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has remained the focal point of an ongoing ...

A coalition of civil liberties associations warned that Vancouver's latest draft action plan fails to adequately address the risk of displacement facing the unsheltered population during the ...

A US federal district judge on Thursday ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated the Internal Revenue Code by inappropriately handing thousands of taxpayers' confidential information ...

UN member states should do more to protect the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in an oral statement on Thursday at the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Wednesday that the president of Angola, João Lourenço, should not sign a new bill into law, ...