Photo of Albergue Amparito, Oasis de Paz del Espíritu Santo, Villahermosa taken by the author and reproduced here with permission. The second Trump administration has distorted the concept of “safe third country” beyond recognition, creating what amounts to a system of legal abandonment for some of the most vulnerable migrants. In January 2026, a small group of us from the Everywhere Border project travelled to Mexico’s southern states to conduct interviews and focus groups w

They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults. Jurist News On Tuesday, an all-Republican and mostly Trump-appointed panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that states can exclude gender-affirming surgery from Medicaid coverage, allowing West Virginia's exclusion to return to full effect. In doing so, the panel extended the Supreme Court's dec

The strike in central Beirut hit a multistorey building in Aisha Bakkar and appears to be another attempted assassination, with no prior warning from Israel. Emergency services inspect the damage after an Israeli attack on an apartment in the Aisha Bakkar neighbourhood of Beirut, Lebanon, on March 11, 2026 [Wael Hamzeh/EPA] Israel has continued its relentless bombardment of Lebanon, striking a residential building in central Beirut and locations in the east and south of the e

AFP When US President Donald Trump began strikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the process, he told Iranians to "take over your government". "It will be yours to take," Trump said. "This will be probably your only chance for generations." But as the war between the US and Israel and Iran has deepened over the past two weeks, Iranians have received sharply different messages about what may happen if they do take action. Encouragement from figures ou

As Washington focuses on its push to topple Iran’s government, delaying talks on Russia’s war in Ukraine, some in Moscow say the Kremlin must achieve its goals militarily. A damaged apartment after a strike by a Russian drone in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Feb. 26. (Kateryna Klochko/AP) Since the first missiles of the U.S.-Israeli campaign began striking Iran, Russian state media and political pundits have been mulling over a question: Do negotiations with the United States alw

Hegseth follows Trump’s suggestion war will soon be over by saying US will not stop until Iran ‘decisively defeated’ Smoke rises after an airstrike in central Tehran on Tuesday. Residents have been advised to stay inside to avoid the poisonous air. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA Tehran residents say the Iranian capital has endured what they described as its worst night of aerial bombardment, as the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, followed Donald Trump’s suggestion on

The global rights group says erosion of health, safety in Gaza ‘a deliberate act of war targeting women and girls’. Palestinian women react after their tent was damaged in an Israeli attack in Nuseirat, central Gaza, on March 9, 2026 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo] Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel amid its genocidal war on the enclave, according to Amnesty International, a global rights group.

OpinioJuris Sunday marked the 115th anniversary of International Women’s Day, and yesterday kicked off the annual forum for the Commission on the Status of Women, with the priority theme of strengthening access to justice for all women and girls. Despite the remarkable progress that has been made in women’s rights since the establishment of International Women’s Day, it is hard to be in a celebratory mood. Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented backlash against gender e

Pomona-based Mexican American artist Jaime Muñoz designed the “ICE Stole Someone Here” signs popping up across the Inland Empire. Muñoz said the butterfly behind bars was a symbol for detained immigrants. (Katerina Portela / De Los) Outside Andrea Galván’s Ontario home, two young boys stop on their scooters to watch their neighbor create signs. Galván, an art consultant and activist, is accompanied in her driveway by a group of volunteers passing stencils and aerosol paints a

[Getty Images/CNN] When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so. Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades until his death in US-Israeli air strikes. The 88-member Assembly of Experts did what many Iranians had hoped it woul