A report published by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday found that there are reasonable grounds to support a finding that the parties to the Tigray conflict committed crimes against humanity and war crimes. The report identified that the conduct giving rise to [...]
Pakistani journalists’ freedom of expression is under threat as criminal defamation charges are being brought against journalists, according to a report published by media rights watchdog Freedom Network on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Criminalizing Online Dissent through Legal Victimization,” analyzed case law and other legal actions taken against journalists between 2019 and 2021, focusing on [...]
An Australian regulator Wednesday ordered US software company Clearview AI to stop collecting person’s facial images from the internet and destroy the data collected. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk found that Clearview AI breached Australia’s privacy laws through the covert collection of biometric information form the internet [...]
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Philippines found in a report released Tuesday that the killings in the “war on drugs” constituted an intent to kill. President Rodrigo Duterte instituted an anti-drug campaign upon election in 2016, known as Project Double Barrel. The investigation found there was an increase in drug-related killings being [...]
China’s new law protecting online user data privacy took effect on Monday. The law was passed by the National People’s Congress, China’s legislative body, in mid-August. The new law, called the Personal Protection Information Law, carries the strongest consumer protection requirements globally to date. Fines can reach 50 million Chinese yuan (about $7.8 million U.S. [...]
Human rights watchdogs accused six high-ranking members of the Belarusian security authorities of committing crimes against humanity in a criminal complaint filed in Germany Monday. The complaint was filed with the German Public Prosecutor General by the Geneva-based World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). The [...]
Thailand’s opposing party, the Pheu Thai Paty, called for amendments to the strict royal insults law in a statement on Sunday. The law in question includes lese majeste, whereby insulting a member of the royal family can lead to a 15-year prison sentence, under section 112 of the Criminal Code. The party stated that the [...]
The US and human rights groups Monday condemned the conviction of a teenage boy in Cambodia over social media messages insulting the ruling party. Sovann Chhay, who is sixteen and on the autism spectrum, was arrested after making the posts on Facebook and Telegram. He was charged with incitement and insulting public officials. These charges [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Monday stating the need to call out Tajikistan’s human rights crackdown. The report states that since banning in 2015 its sole remaining opposition party, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), the Tajik government has jailed hundreds of political activists, journalists, and lawyers. Torture and ill-treatment are routinely [...]
G20 have agreed to endorse a 15% global minimum corporate tax during the summit in Rome. The tax framework was proposed by the OECD in July 2021 as a method to challenge new tax issues that have been created by an increasingly digital economy. The landmark agreement involving 136 countries and jurisdictions, representing more than 90% of global GDP, [...]
