A broad coalition of civil liberties, data privacy, refugee, migrants rights and gender justice organizations denounced the Canadian government’s introduction of Bill C-12 on Wednesday, asserting that it fails to resolve the human rights and refugee protection issues in the controversial Bill C-2. The organizations are led by Amnesty International. The organizations are calling for [...]

The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland ruled on Tuesday that writing off 16.5 billion Swiss francs ($20.53 billion USD) in Credit Suisse bonds was unlawful, calling into question the government’s approach to handling banking crises.  Credit Suisse, a global Swiss bank, collapsed in March 2023, triggering a response from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a public statement on Tuesday calling on Türkiye’s authorities to investigate the death of journalist and reporter Hakan Tosun, amid concerns that his death may have been an act of retaliation for his journalism. On October 11, Tosun was attacked on the street in Istanbul and beaten unconscious [...]

The UN on Tuesday condemned a Russian drone strike on a humanitarian convoy delivering aid to Bilozerka, a town nine kilometers from the front line in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The UN stated in a press release that an “inter-agency convoy” of four trucks carrying hygiene kits, medicines and shelter materials was attacked [...]

US District Judge William E. Smith of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the court’s previous order requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove certain conditions for states to accept Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants. Following the court’s September order mandating [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Russia must pay Georgia over 253 million euros as a result of severe human rights breaches that arose due to the Russian “borderisation” process between the breakaway regions of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the territory controlled by the Georgian government. The court ordered Russia [...]

In two letters published on Tuesday, the European Council Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concerns over human rights in the United Kingdom, focusing on its recent policing of pro-Palestine protests, and its rollback of transgender rights. In a letter to the UK secretary of state, Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty raised alarm over heightened policing of pro-Palestine protests, [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed Tuesday that Israel released 14 journalists who had been arrested while reporting from the Conscience, a ship in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC). According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and CPJ, Israeli authorities arrested the journalists on October 8 near the Suez Canal. One journalist aboard, Emily Wilder, [...]

The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs voted Monday to amend its position on the European Union’s landmark corporate accountability law, introducing a series of changes to companies’ sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements. The EUs corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD) was adopted last year and “requires companies to fix human rights and environmental [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied review of media personality Alex Jones’ appeal of the $1.4 billion judgment against him for damaging statements he made related to the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Jones sought review of a Connecticut court’s verdict against him, arguing that the ruling infringed on his speech rights as a [...]