The European Commission on Friday formally launched an infringement procedure against Slovakia over constitutional reforms seeking to preserve the country’s “national identity” in matters such as gender and family law. The Commission cited the amendments’ alleged violation of the fundamental principles of European Union law. These reforms “contravene the principle of the primacy of EU [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily stayed a lower court order that blocked Texas’s new congressional map that would have created additional seats for Republicans. The Supreme Court order temporarily restored the new congressional map, pending further review, hours after Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an emergency appeal following the lower [...]

Philippine police and law enforcement agencies are moving to arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal related to government flood control efforts that has ignited massive street protests and toppled powerful congressional leaders. The  issuance of arrest warrants was announced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday. At the center of the case is former [...]

The UN decried on Friday a recent attack against civilians perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN described the incident as “one of the most appalling attacks” ever recorded in the country, and indicated that it may constitute a war crime. According to [...]

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should take decisive action to address Egypt’s long-running human rights crisis following its review of the country’s record, 22 organizations said on Thursday. The statement followed the commission’s 85th session, during which both the Egyptian government and the commission’s country rapporteur presented reports that rights groups claim [...]

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2803 violates Palestine’s right to self-determination, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated on Wednesday, calling it “security-first, capital-driven model of foreign control” that entrenches existing power asymmetries. Albanese, a UN expert appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said that the resolution [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that federal prisoners can use habeas corpus to challenge decisions denying them transfer to lower-security institutions, holding that such refusals can amount to a deprivation of liberty that courts must be able to review. In its decision in Dorsey v. Canada involving inmate Ghassan Salah, the Court [...]

Democratic US Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania received bomb threats at two of his offices Friday after Donald Trump accused him and five other congresspeople of seditious behavior over a video encouraging US military members to refuse illegal orders. A post from Deluzio’s spokesperson reported that the congressman and his staff are safe. Local outlet [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Thursday that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, is unlawful, in District of Columbia v. Trump. District Judge Jia M. Cobb of the US District Court for the District of Columbia stated in a memorandum opinion that the defendants “exceeded the bounds of their authority [...]

UN experts on Thursday urged the Spanish government to ratify a draft bill on “stolen babies” that has been under parliamentary review since 2020, a move that would protect the rights of victims of baby abductions since July 17, 1936. That date marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, which ended with consolidation of [...]