The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Ana Brian Nougrères, has warned that the patchwork of rules on international transfers of personal data leaves people exposed and hinders legitimate trade. She urged states to begin negotiating a legally binding international treaty. In a report to the UN General Assembly released on October 23, [...]

After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a statement released on October 20, Russell called for immediate investment in Bangladesh’s children. Her first priority was ending child marriage and keeping [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday said a growing number of Southeast Asian states are cutting back on the death penalty, creating new momentum towards abolition in a region long known for its strong support for capital punishment. The statement came ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, alongside a new briefing [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the French government to permanently ban stun grenades in the policing of all protests, saying the announcement of a temporary suspension does not go far enough. Welcoming the announcement from the French government, Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, stated: While the suspension of the use of these [...]

The UN International Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equity in Law Enforcement on Thursday urged Colombia to ensure that its security and drug-control policies do not reinforce systemic racism against people of African descent. The warning comes as Colombia faces pressure to strengthen its response to drug trafficking, armed groups and criminal organizations. [...]

South Korea on Tuesday began enforcing an amended law designed to curb the spread of false and manipulated information online, amid growing concern over AI-generated content and misinformation on social media. The amendment to the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection allows courts to award punitive damages against news [...]

The upper house of the Canadian parliament passed Bill S-228 on Monday to amend the Criminal Code (the Code) to explicitly criminalize forced and coerced sterilization. Specifically, the bill amends § 268(1) of the Code and prohibits the performance of a sterilization procedure without a patient’s voluntary consent as an act that wounds or maims [...]

The Canadian Senate on Thursday passed Bill C-8, introducing a mandatory cybersecurity framework designed to protect critical infrastructure across the country’s telecommunications, finance, energy and transportation sectors against emerging threats. The legislation achieves its objectives by amending the existing Telecommunications Act and enacting the new Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act. The amendments to the Telecommunications [...]

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced Monday that his Tisza Party would immediately begin work on amending Hungary’s Fundamental Law to remove President Tamas Sulyok if he refuses to resign. Magyar said impeachment was one theoretical option under current law, but insisted his government would avoid that route in order to preserve the dignity of [...]

The labor union at South Korea’s Samsung Electronics held off on launching a planned 18-day strike Wednesday after reaching a last-minute, tentative wage deal with the company management, alleviating immediate concerns about a potential operational shutdown at the world’s leading memory chip maker. The tentative agreement comes roughly six months after the union’s formation in [...]