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Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights organization, urged Pakistan’s government on Tuesday to cease their harassment and arbitrary arrests of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.  A multitude of Afghans have fled to Pakistan in fear of persecution after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. They fled to Pakistan with the aim of building new lives [...]

The Biden administration knew that Ukraine planned to attack a majority Russian-owned natural gas pipeline, owned by Nord Stream, three months ahead of an actual attack on the gas line, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post. According to a Tuesday report from the Post, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) received information from [...]

The Supreme Court of Nepal Tuesday instructed the government to legally recognize same-sex marriage. They further recommended a five-step plan in order to allow same-sex couples and non-cisgender individuals to get married in line with a 2015 court-ordered report, which has not yet been acted upon by the government. In the latest of many recent [...]

The UK government Tuesday announced that officials began a “large scale evacuation” effort to help British nationals leave Sudan amidst ongoing fighting in the region. The operation follows the 72-hour ceasefire agreement between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), over a week after fighting began. Amid the recent escalation of [...]

An Australian law firm on Friday launched a class-action lawsuit against telecommunications giant Optus, seeking compensation for the fallout of a major data breach that occurred in September.  Filed in the Federal Court of Australia, the lawsuit accuses Optus of violating fundamental privacy principles and breaching its duty of care to its customers. The suit [...]

Over 155,000 Canadian public sector workers Wednesday went on strike as bargaining between the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) continues to stagnate, potentially impacting Canadians’ ability to access some government services.  Contracts for two major PSAC groups, composed of Treasury Board and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees, expired in 2021. [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo, Norway.  Last Saturday, April 1, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Pavel, was [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia.  As a Ukrainian correspondent for JURIST now studying at the University of Zagreb, I have observed many differences and similarities between the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The region’s political life has fascinated me since I arrived, and [...]

Authorities in Egypt have refused to issue and renew essential identity documents needed by those living outside the country, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday. The refusals are allegedly part of attempts to force dissidents to return to Egypt, where they would likely face persecution. Under the government of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, politically motivated migration [...]

Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants Sunday attempted en masse to cross the US Border from Mexico and were prevented from doing so by US and Mexican authorities. The largest group of migrants attempted to reach the US from the Paso del Norte Bridge, which connects Ciudad Juarez, to El Paso, Texas. Simultaneously, other groups of migrants [...]