A UN Human Rights Committee on Follow-Up Rapporteur Friday published findings that Spain failed to implement a landmark United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision in the Baltasar Garzón v Spain case. The report was sent directly to Garzón’s international legal representative, Helen Duffy, of Human Rights in Practice. Speaking on the report, Human Rights in [...]

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands affirmed on Friday that Palestinians are precluded from bringing legal action against Israeli military officers for their involvement in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip dated back to 2014. The highest Dutch court upheld the decisions of lower court judges, ruling that former chief of hte General Staff Benny [...]

A Maryland federal judge denied Thursday a parents’ request to have their children “opt-out’ of education on LGBTQ+ history and topics. In Mahmoud v. McKnight, three families parenting elementary-aged children in Maryland, objected on religious grounds to the use of storybooks featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) system. The court rejected the [...]

French prosecutors announced Friday they referred an investigation into former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s alleged involvement with Libyan financiers to court. Sarkozy and his twelve co-defendants will stand trial on charges such as corruption and illegal financing in 2025. Two financial judges endorsed Sarkozy’s transfer to a criminal court for the examination of suspicions regarding [...]

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic joined two physicians and Greenville Women’s Clinic to file a petition Thursday asking the Supreme Court of South Carolina to reconsider its decision to uphold a strict state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The appeal comes just one day after the court ruled the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection [...]

The Supreme Court of Vanuatu ruled on Friday that Vanuatu’s opposition party won a no-confidence vote regarding incumbent Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau last week. While the speaker of Parliament initially ruled that the motion failed, because it garnered less than the absolute majority of 27 votes, Judge Edwin Goldsbrough of the Supreme Court found that [...]

Around 100 Afghan women were prevented from boarding a plane to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they were to attend university, by Taliban authorities on Wednesday. The students were sponsored by Dubai-based businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, who provided them with scholarships in collaboration with the University of Dubai.  In a statement, Al Habtoor said, [...]

South Korean police on Thursday arrested a large number of protesters demonstrating outside the Japanese embassy against the Japanese government’s dumping of treated radioactive water into the ocean. Japan has faced harsh criticism from many neighboring countries over this decision despite the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) support. Multiple news outlets report that 16 protesters [...]

The Nicaraguan Ministry of Interior ordered on Wednesday the cancellation of the legal status of the Jesuit religious community, a Catholic congregation, and confiscation of all its property for failure to report its financial statements during the fiscal periods 2020, 2021 and 2022. The ministry also cited the Jesuit’s alleged failure to timely update the [...]

The EU issued a call on Wednesday for “more inclusive democratic procedures” in the Central African Republic (CAR) following a recent constitutional referendum that resulted in the extension of presidential term limits. EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano commented, “The EU takes note of the results of the Constitutional Referendum in the Central African Republic. [...]