Amnesty International called Thursday for Germany to provide reparations for genocide committed against Namibia’s Ovaherero and Nama peoples between 1904 and 1908—steps Germany has refused, despite recognizing the atrocities as genocide. The appeal came on the 121st anniversary of Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha’s extermination order against the Ovaherero people, issued Oct. 2, 1904. A [...]

Three-quarters of Europeans believe large companies should be held accountable for human rights and environmental violations across their global supply chains, even as the European Union moves to weaken corporate sustainability laws, according to new polling reported Thursday by Amnesty International. The research, conducted last month by Ipsos, surveyed over 10,000 people across ten European [...]

In an emergency press release on Wednesday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) reported that its Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by Israel in international waters, roughly 80 nautical miles off the Gaza coast. The press release said that the activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla have been detained. The Global Sumud Flotilla and [...]

Amnesty International, in a report released on Wednesday, revealed that Chinese courts are utilizing ambiguous laws to crack down on civilians’ freedoms of speech and association, subjecting individuals to arbitrary arrests and violations of fair trial rights. The report, titled “How Could This Verdict be ‘Legal’?”, analyzes more than 100 “official indictments and verdicts from [...]

Amnesty International condemned Iraqi authorities on Tuesday for their continued persecution of activists and protesters six years after the nationwide Tishreen demonstrations. The organization also criticized the Iraqi authorities for failing to deliver meaningful justice for the killings of hundreds and disappearances of protesters by security forces and militias. Amnesty said the persistent lack of [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Zillow and Redfin, alleging the real estate technology companies violated federal antitrust laws through agreements that eliminated competition in the online rental advertising marketplace. The lawsuit alleges that in February, Zillow paid Redfin $100 million under a “Partnership Agreement,” requiring Redfin to exit [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on armed Palestinian groups to immediately release all civilians still held hostage in the occupied Gaza Strip, nearly two years after the October 7 attacks, while also urging Israel to halt what it described as an ongoing genocide against Palestinians. In its latest report, the rights group stressed that achieving [...]

The federal government officially entered a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after both Republican and Democratic spending proposals failed in the Senate, triggering constitutional questions and threatening the operations of the nation’s courts and law enforcement agencies. The impasse centers on competing congressional spending bills, with Democrats demanding extensions to subsidies under the Affordable Care [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the First Amendment by attempting to deport non-citizens for protesting the conflict in Gaza. Judge Williams of the US District Court for Massachusetts stated in his opinion that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio acted intentionally [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law the withdrawal of Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The move effectively eliminates oversight of the country’s prisons and detention facilities at a time when Moscow faces widespread accusations of torture and inhuman treatment against its own citizens, Ukrainian civilians, and prisoners [...]