The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Monday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission’s (ECI) decision to verify and revise the State of Bihar’s electoral rolls as it awaits assembly elections later this year. This [...]

Yesterday the country woke up to yet another day of commemoration, marking 35 years since the famous Saba Saba Movement, first held on July 7, 1990. The movement began as a protest, demanding multiparty democracy against the then-government’s autocratic regime. Despite the protest being banned, key opposition leaders still convened in Nairobi. This resulted in [...]

Syeda Aamna Hasan is a recent Pakistani law graduate and LLM student currently working as a legal researcher.  Torrential monsoon rains have triggered devastating floods across Pakistan in recent days, leaving at least 18 people dead and dozens missing, as the country scrambles to contain the humanitarian fallout of yet another climate-induced disaster. The worst-hit [...]

Late last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague detected and contained a “new, sophisticated and targeted” cybersecurity incident, marking the second major breach in under two years. The attack came at a sensitive time, as The Hague hosted the NATO summit and local Dutch authorities reported a series of related distributed denial-of-service [...]

Judges, lawyers, law students like myself, and legal advocates from across the United States and beyond attended a virtual event on Thursday entitled “Global Threats to the Justice System: A Warning to America”. The event was organized by Speak Up for Justice, a growing nationwide initiative launched by LA-based attorney and event host, Paul R. [...]

On Wednesday, at the NATO summit in The Hague, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez formally rejected the alliance’s newly agreed aspirational guideline for member states to increase defense spending to 5% of national GDP by 2035. In a carefully negotiated compromise, NATO permitted Spain to endorse the summit’s joint communiqué with a subtle but significant [...]

Darina Boykova is a 2L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Last week she attended the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, on assignment for JURIST. This is the second part of a two-part report. The first part of her report is here. The arrival of the leaders on the first day of the [...]

I recently returned to the US from Uzbekistan. This was my second visit to that Central Asian country, and I must say that as an Afghan, it was a bittersweet experience. Uzbekistan is a beautiful, peaceful place with a rich history and a modern, vibrant identity. As a Muslim-majority nation,  it feels both culturally familiar [...]

Darina Boykova is a 2L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Last week she attended the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, on assignment for JURIST. This is the first part of a two-part report.  Last week in beautiful and sunny Kananaskis was distinguished by Canada’s hosting of the G7 Summit. Besides the leaders [...]

The 25th of June 2024 will forever be remembered in Kenyan history as the heroic day when Kenyan youth demonstrated and breached the country’s parliament buildings with in frustration at the members of the parliament who had acceded to the passing of the finance bill of 2024, a punitive bill which, if assented to law, [...]