A Chinese refugee affected by recent Australian emergency laws subjecting certain refugees to monitoring challenged the laws in Australia’s high court on Wednesday, according to ABC News (Australia). The refugee’s lawyers claim that the new laws, which relate to the monitoring of refugees who cannot be deported, are “arbitrary” and “punitive.” Under the new laws, [...]

Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stated in a Thursday interview that the federal government will introduce new legislation to monitor migrants who have recently been released from indefinite detention.  This comes after the High Court of Australia ruled on November 8 that it was unlawful to hold migrants who could not be extradited indefinitely [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change Ian Fry called for the disbandment of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), which he called a “counter-insurgency force” within the Philippines. In a press conference that was held after his ten-day trip [...]

The Australian High Court found on Tuesday that the government’s ongoing practice of detaining migrants indefinitely in detention facilities in cases where extradition is not possible is unlawful. The case overrules 2004 precedent that allowed the government to indefinitely detain migrants deemed to be “stateless.” Tuesday’s case looked at the issues facing a Rohingya man [...]

The High Court of Australia ruled Wednesday that the Australian government’s attempt to strip a man convicted of terrorism offences is illegal. The man, Abdul Benbrika, is an Algerian national who gained Australian citizenship in 1989. He was convicted of being part of a terrorist cell in 2008 after being exposed by Australia’s Operation Pendennis. [...]

The United Nations Human Rights Commission stated Wednesday that it had “serious concerns” that the recent airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza could amount to war crimes. Israel claimed responsibility for the airstrikes on Tuesday that hit the camp, claiming that Hamas militants had an underground bunker in the camp and were using [...]

The Brazil-penned UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict was vetoed Wednesday by the US. The resolution advocated a temporary ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians who are caught in the midst of the war. Despite the resolution explicitly condemning Hamas’s October 7 attacks on [...]

The Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Wednesday detailing the problems that states are facing in combating drug trafficking and addiction globally. The report states that while the drug problem is significant, treating people who use drugs as criminals has never been an effective strategy to combat drug use [...]

The EU’s top court Wednesday refused an appeal by Russian billionaire and staunch Putin ally Gennady Timchenko. The oligarch was placed on the EU sanction list following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Timchenko, a long-standing tycoon in the energy sector, was heavily involved in Putin’s work within Russia as the CEO of Novatek, the [...]

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 [...]