Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this report from Nairobi. Susan Njoki’s tragic death sent shockwaves through Kenya’s mental health community—not only because it marked the loss of a passionate advocate, but because her final days revealed the system’s failure to help those it claimed to protect. Susan Njoki—founder of Toto Touch [...]
Brown University announced a settled deal signed by the university and US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, restoring millions of dollars of frozen federal grants paused due to the university’s alleged mistreatment of Jewish students and use of race in the admissions process. The deal, published on Brown’s website, stated a list of agreements [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday announced Canada’s intention to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state at the upcoming UN General Assembly in early September, with certain conditions. PM Carney said his plans to acknowledge Palestine as a state are contingent on the Palestinian Authority agreeing to implement several of his recommendations. Carney asked [...]
On Wednesday, the UN high commissioner for human rights welcomed the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand while urging both countries to pursue a civil de-escalation process. High Commissioner Volker Türk asserted that it is important for both sides to ensure that victims of the violence receive redress in line with international human rights and humanitarian [...]
A US federal court on Wednesday reinstated a lawsuit filed by a New York state court clerk who claims she was fired for complying with an investigation into her boss. Samantha Long, a former court clerk for the town of New Lebanon, New York, contended that she was fired for cooperating with a New York [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that Bangladesh’s interim government failed to implement adequate human rights protections, one year after the overthrow of the previous government. The rights group noted that while the current government, led by Mohammed Yunus, has taken some positive steps towards improving the human rights situation, issues of impunity and [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday voiced deep concern following a ruling by a court in Duhok, Iraq, that ordered Kurdish journalist Omed Baroshky to remain in prison for an additional six months. In commenting on his predicament, CPJ Levant program coordinator Doja Daoud stated: “Omed Baroshky has already faced retaliation for his [...]
Ireland’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the government did not violate the rights of newly arrived single male asylum seekers who were left without accommodation, overturning an earlier High Court decision that found a breach of Article 1 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The case was brought by the Irish Human Rights [...]
The world is failing women and girls. With just five years left to accomplish the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not a single country is on track to meet SDG 5: achieving gender equality. Governments cite excuses such as budget constraints or political instability, but a leading cause is the injustice that remains embedded [...]
Two years into Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are dead, and the rest of the population is facing increasingly dire humanitarian circumstances. Food scarcity experts at the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Tuesday said “the worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza [...]
