The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday sentenced former South Korea first lady Kim Keon Hee to 20 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for political favors. The court found Kim guilty of accepting luxury gifts, including Chanel bags and a diamond pendant, from officials associated with the Unification Church. In its verdict, [...]

Four women and a physician in Arkansas filed a lawsuit against the state on Wednesday over its abortion ban, claiming the law is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs seek to strike down a ban that was enacted immediately after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The [...]

A Dutch criminal court has sentenced a 42-year-old man to 20 years in prison for heading one of the Netherlands’ largest and most violent migrant-smuggling operations. The defendant was ordered to pay over €30,000 in compensation to the victims. The proceedings spanned multiple hearings from November 2025 to January 2026. Authorities stated the network primarily [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized on Thursday the Greek government’s new immigration bill for imposing restrictive measures on civil society organizations that provide aid to immigrants and for criminalizing humanitarian activity, which violates fundamental human rights. HRW noted that the proposed bill would amend Greece’s migration code by introducing several new measures related to the [...]

A Virginia judge on Tuesday ruled that the state’s legislature violated its own procedural rules and state constitutional requirements in passing a recent redistricting amendment. A permanent injunction was issued, blocking the amendment from moving forward. The decision by Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley declared all legislative actions on the proposed amendment void from [...]

Nicolas Levrat, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, cautioned on Wednesday that the European Union (EU) must end double standards on minority protection. Levrat said that the EU “lacks the tools and motivation to effectively address minority issues within the bloc,” and that the  “gap must be closed to guarantee better protection of minorities [...]

The Hague District Court ruled on Wednesday that the Netherlands has failed to meet its international obligations on climate change. The court ordered the government to adopt adequate measures to better protect Bonaire, a Dutch Caribbean island, within 18 months. The court concluded that the government had violated the right to private and family life [...]

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice on Tuesday announced plans to expand the court estate by transforming four temporary court buildings into permanent fixtures, in a move to increase access to justice. The four courts in Fleetwood, Telford, Chichester, and Cirencester have been used as “Nightingale courts” since the Covid-19 pandemic. “This move secures 11 [...]

Rwanda announced on Tuesday that it has filed a legal complaint in the Hague against the United Kingdom, due to unmet payments from a canceled migration treaty. The Rwandan government filed a Notice of Arbitration in November 2025 to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, under Article 22 of the Treaty between the United Kingdom and [...]

UN experts raised serious concerns on Tuesday over the criminal prosecution of several students who protested against the research partnerships of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) with Israel. A group of UN Special Rapporteurs, including Francesca Albanese and other UN independent experts, openly disagreed with the ETH Zurich board’s decision [...]