In an advisory opinion published Thursday, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said Hungary infringed European law by restricting access to LGBTQ+ content. Tamara Ćapeta stated that Hungary has deviated from the EU’s values and recommended the CJEU find that the nation infringed Article 2 of the Treaty [...]

Libya’s judicial authorities are cracking down on fundamental freedoms, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced on Monday, in their report “Injustice By Design: Need for Comprehensive Justice Reform in Libya.” HRW stated that the North African country is reluctant to investigate serious human rights violations and international crimes, “the justice system is marked by serious due [...]

A news report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday indicated that the Ugandan government has perpetrated violence against LGBTQ+ people, their families, and supporters since Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act was enacted. The report highlights abuses instigated and enabled by Uganda’s government, its institutions, and parliamentary members. The report found that these abuses by the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to remove the terrorism designation of 11 political opponents and relatives, and eight companies they own. In January, the UAE government released the cabinet’s decision, Resolution No. (1) of 2025 Regarding Approving the List of Terrorist Persons and Organizations, authorizing a list including [...]

Gambian national Michael Sang Correa was convicted by a Colorado jury for participating in the torture of victims in 2006, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Correa was a part of a paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers,” run by Yahya Jammeh, dictator and former Gambian president. The victims told the jury that [...]

Hungary’s National Assembly on Monday passed an amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary that bans LGBTQ+ public events. The change was adopted with 140 votes in favor of the amendment and 21 against. The amendment was initiated by Hungary’s governing far-right party, Fidesz -KDNP. Budapest Pride was banned last month after a fast-tracked bill [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday detailing prevalent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), indicating probable war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, titled “They Raped All of Us,” shared the story of 30 women and girls who were raped from April 15, [...]

Thousands of protestors in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, blocked major roads and bridges along the Danube on Tuesday in disapproval of a law banning LGBTQ+ pride and restricting Hungarians’ right to assembly. The protest was organized by Ákos Hadházy, an MP for the Politics Can Be Different (LMP), a green-liberal party, calling for resistance against the [...]

The Osaka High Court held that Japan’s lack of recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional on Tuesday. The Osaka High Court is the fifth court to rule that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional after similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya. While Presiding Judge Kumiko Honda upheld the [...]

Ten New York corrections officers were charged Thursday in the 2024 death of inmate Robert Brooks at a state prison. Six of the officers, Anthony Farina, Nicholas Anzalone, David Kingsley, Christopher Walrath, Matthew Gallagher and one other officer, have been charged with second-degree murder; three others, Michael Mashaw, Michael Fisher and David Walters, face manslaughter [...]