Myanmar’s military courts sentenced 14 individuals to life imprisonment in a series of human trafficking cases involving forced marriage, sexual exploitation, and the production of pornographic content, local media reported Saturday. “The president of the military court has sentenced nine Burmese and five Chinese nationals to life imprisonment for selling Burmese women to Chinese men [...]

The UN reported on Sunday that a new wave of armed attacks in northern Mozambique has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis and raising urgent questions about compliance with international legal obligations to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian assistance. Between July 20 and 28, at [...]

Amnesty International has called on Angolan authorities to conduct an independent and impartial investigation into the apparent unlawful killings of 22 people during a three-day national taxi drivers’ strike that began on July 29. In a statement released on Friday, the organization condemned the use of excessive and lethal force by security forces against protesters, [...]

Slovenia on Thursday banned the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment from and to Israel, becoming the first European Union (EU) country to do so. According to Prime Minister Robert Golob, the grave human rights violations taking place in the region obligate other states to comply with provisions of international law and act, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the block of a customer’s challenge to a bounced check fee imposed by the Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU). In its decision, the court found that federal law preempts state law in the regulation of federal credit unions. Specifically, the court reasoned that 12 C.F.R. [...]

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has agreed with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to extend their current trade deal for 90 days while they negotiate a new trade deal. Trump wrote on his TruthSocial platform that the current trade deal calls for Mexico continuing to pay “25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on [...]

Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation restoring the independence of the country’s leading anti-corruption agencies, reversing a controversial law enacted last week that placed them under the prosecutor general’s control. The new law was adopted by Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, with 331 votes in favor and none opposed. The law reestablishes the autonomy [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed both a 2023 jury verdict and a permanent injunction in Epic Games, Inc. v. Google LLC. The Ninth Circuit held that Google violated federal and California antitrust laws by unlawfully maintaining monopoly power in the markets for Android app distribution and Android in-app billing [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday urged accountability for the death of Syrian photojournalist Sari Majid Al-Shoufi while reporting on armed combat near the Syrian city of Sweida. Al-Shoufi was a photojournalist for Suwayda 24, a Druze-focused website. Rayan Marouf, the editor-in-chief of the website, said Al-Shoufi was reporting from a site in Taara, [...]

Iranian authorities severed the fingers of three men convicted of theft, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday. HRW Iran researcher Bahar Saba denounced the punishment, stating, “Amputation is torture, plain and simple. Yet Iran persists in carrying out cruel and inhuman punishments that fly in the face of its human rights obligations.” Mehdi Shahivand, [...]