A UN report published on Tuesday found that Palestinian civilians are systematically subjected to human rights violations by both Israeli settlers and security forces and by Hamas. The report, conducted by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, found that both Israeli settlers and Hamas-affiliated forces are creating hostile and [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused Iran Tuesday of interfering with a short-wave radio frequency used to broadcast independent Farsi-language news into the country. RSF said interference recently appeared on the 15,500 kHz frequency used by a station it launched with Radio For Peace International to provide independent news coverage to Iranian audiences. The broadcasts were [...]

In an official press release, six governments announced Tuesday that they will impose sanctions on several persons enabling settler violence in the West Bank and occupied Palestinian lands. The sanctions are coming from Canada, France, New Zealand, the UK, Australia and Norway as a joint effort against a total of six individuals or groups who [...]

Pope Leo has issued what observers are calling the most direct papal acknowledgment yet of the Catholic Church’s historic role in legitimizing slavery, buried within a sweeping new encyclical on artificial intelligence and human dignity. In Magnifica Humanitas, a wide-ranging encyclical primarily addressing artificial intelligence and Catholic social doctrine, Pope Leo acknowledged both the Church’s [...]

During the 1960s, the author spent four years studying international law at Princeton. At that time, the intellectual influence of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein was palpable on campus. Much of the earliest conceptual thought about nuclear weapons and nuclear war originated at Princeton. Here, Professor Beres examines what we can learn from these [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday issued a formal legal opinion declaring the approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforcement of “disparate impact” liability to be unlawful. The theory of disparate impact liability originated in the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in which it was [...]

Plaintiffs in Japan are seeking a clear ruling on whether the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Delivering signatures to the Supreme Court Monday, plaintiffs called for an unambiguous decision for legalization of same-sex marriage. Japan is currently the only G7 country where same-sex marriage is illegal. The case before Japan’s Supreme Court is [...]

The EU on Tuesday proposed an entry ban for Russian soldiers. The plan would bar all those who have served in the Russian military, including non-Russian citizens, since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 from receiving visas for the Schengen Area. The EU had already implemented sanctions against Russia after the annexation of Crimea in [...]

Kenyan authorities dispersed a protest against a national park construction project in the country on Monday. The authorities arrested 10 peaceful protesters, including Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga. Leading the United Green Movement Party, Maraga organized a protest on Monday against building a 1,300-capacity car park in Nairobi National Park. According to Maraga, they [...]