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The Pakistan Institute of Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) released a report on Wednesday that revealed there was a increase in militant attacks in April which resulted in the deaths of 70 individuals, including civilian and security forces personnel. Although there was an increase in the number of attacks since March, there was a slight [...]

Officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) entered and made arrests at Columbia University on Tuesday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied an academic building, which police cleared. This is the latest escalation in an ongoing demonstration that gained worldwide attention and sparked similar actions on campuses across the US after NYPD officers forcibly [...]

The Superior Council of Communication (CSC) of Burkina Faso said in a statement on Sunday that it had suspended several more international news outlets for covering a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the country’s military of killing civilians. According to the CSC, TV5 programs are suspended for two weeks, while access to the websites of [...]

The  Krasnoflotsky District Court placed Forbes journalist Sergei Mingazov under house arrest on Saturday, according to reports from Russia state-owned media. Mingazov is accused of disseminating “fake” news on his Telegram account and criticizing Russian military operations in Ukraine. The posts on Mingazov’s Telegram included reposts from April 2022 of allegations that Russian forces killed [...]

Mexican journalists held a vigil and protest Saturday after one of their colleagues, Roberto Figueroa, was killed in the southern state of Morelos, according to reports from local media. Figueroa, host and producer of the show “Acá en el Show” is the first journalist murdered in the country in 2024. Journalists gathered at the Memorial [...]

Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, said Friday that violence against women is an “epidemic” in the country as thousands of people gathered in cities across Australia demanding tougher legislation on gender-based violence. In his announcement on X (formerly Twitter), Albanese said that “governments need to do better and as a society we need to [...]

Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency response group in Palestine, called on the United Nations and the international community to conduct an independent investigation of mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals in a press conference on Thursday. The officials also called for a halt to the fighting and for a surge [...]

Lebanon’s Council of Ministers has taken steps towards accepting International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction within their territory Friday by instructing their Foreign Affairs Ministry to submit a declaration to the ICC, allowing the court to investigate and prosecute crimes occurring within Lebanese territory since October 7, 2023. While Lebanon is still not a ratifying member [...]

The spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General made a call to Haitian authorities to “expedite the full implementation of the transitional governance arrangements” following the official installation of a Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) and the official resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Thursday. The establishment of the TPC comes as a response to rampant gang [...]

Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC. Today I attended oral arguments at the US Supreme Court for Trump v. US, a case concerning whether a president has absolute immunity after they [...]