Finland’s President Alexander Stubb on Wednesday called for significant changes in the UN Security Council (UNSC), including ending the single-seat veto power of permanent members and doubling the number of permanent seats. In an interview with Reuters, Stubb outlined his proposals and promised to join other voices on these issues at the upcoming UN General [...]

The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) condemned the US House of Representatives on Wednesday for using its Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act to “slander laws on safeguarding national security” and “smear the human rights situation” in Hong Kong. The bill, which passed the House 413-3, seeks to [...]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) described a continuing “climate of fear” in Venezuela on Tuesday after the issuing of an arrest warrant for the opposition’s presidential candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez. The office reiterated deep concerns over the situation in Venezuela, where controversy over the declaration of Nicolas Maduro’s victory [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied a Trinidad and Tobago man’s claim to US citizenship on Tuesday and declined to halt his deportation even though the man held a wrongfully issued US citizenship certificate for 21 years. Lall received a Certificate of Citizenship in 1991 from Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) [...]

The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine voted on Wednesday to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, making Ukraine a state party. 281 deputies of the Rada voted for the bill while only one voted against it. The bill was introduced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on August 17 alongside other legislation to bring [...]

The American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) released a roadmap on Tuesday outlining Democratic nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign commitments regarding reproductive freedom and how the ACLU will ensure their delivery. The roadmap is part of the organization’s memo series exploring potential policies concerning a range of civil liberty issues that are likely [...]