The Lower House of the Indian Parliament, known as the Lok Sabha, passed two bills on Wednesday aimed at introducing and implementing reservations for members of schedule castes, tribes, socially and educationally “backward” classes within the legislative assembly, employment sphere and professional institutions within the territories of Jammu and Kashmir. Reservations in India are a [...]
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo issued a decree Monday dissolving the opposition-led parliament, following “the seriousness of the events of November 30 and December 1” which the president described as an “attempted coup.” The decree, which came into force immediately, states that the events “constituted an attempt to subvert the constitutional order, resulting through this [...]
Human rights groups Oxfam Novib, PAX, and The Rights Forum are seeking to halt the Dutch government‘s export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel in a hearing that began Monday. During summary proceedings in front of the Hague District Court , they argued that such exports make the Netherlands complicit in potential war crimes, [...]
Germany’s civic space was rated as “narrow” in a new report from global rights watchdog CIVICUS Monitor. Germany was one of seven countries downgraded in the People Under Attack 2023 report, which analysed how governments protect citizens’ freedom of expression in 198 countries. The report found that over 30 percent of the world’s population now [...]
The UK Metropolitan Police stated Tuesday they arrested nine people for displaying a pro-Palestinian banner outside a house in London. This is the most recent police action since then Home Secretary Suella Braverman ordered on October 10 police to increase their scrutiny on displays of Palestinian support amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a post [...]
The Peruvian Constitutional Court ordered the immediate release of former President Alberto Fujimori on Monday, disregarding a resolution from the the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) that the release should be blocked. Despite Peru being bound by IACHR decisions, the Constitutional Court now asserts that the IACHR exceed its supervisory jurisdiction by ordering the [...]
International human rights organizations called upon the Kenyan government on Tuesday to halt illegal and forceful evictions in the Mau Forest, located in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Amnesty International, the Minority Rights Group International and Survival International stated that more than 700 people have been displaced from the Mau Forest and urged that the [...]
Amnesty International released an 85-page report on Monday, outlining the deterioration of human rights in El Salvador over the 21 months that the country has been in a state of emergency to combat gang violence. The human rights organization says that El Salvador’s emergency measures have violated human rights by perpetrating massive arbitrary detentions, torture [...]
The UK government recently announced a strategy to cut migration levels in response to increasing demands for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to address net migration figures. The Monday plan includes raising the minimum salary needed for skilled overseas workers and prohibiting care workers from bringing dependents to the UK, with the ultimate goal of reducing [...]
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly signed an asylum treaty Tuesday with Rwanda, in an attempt to overcome a recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court which blocked the government’s policy to send asylum seekers to the African nation. At a press conference, Cleverly insisted that “this treaty addresses all of the issues of their lordships [...]
