The ICJ unanimously decided to allow seven states to intervene in the ongoing genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar on Wednesday. The countries granted permission to participate in the proceedings are Maldives, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The court found their declarations of intervention admissible under Article 63 of [...]

US Democratic congressman Joe Morelle announced plans Wednesday to attempt to reverse this week’s US Supreme Court ruling on former US President Donald Trump’s immunity claims. He said in a statement: I am introducing a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s catastrophic decision and ensure no president is above the law. This amendment will [...]

German authorities on Wednesday arrested five individuals on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The suspects, four stateless Syrian Palestinians and one Syrian citizen, are accused of killing and torturing civilians during the Syrian civil war. The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, with protests against President [...]

The UN Human Rights spokesperson expressed grave concern on Tuesday over the sentencing of 10 Cambodian environmental activists to prison terms for “plotting” and “insulting the King.” The statement came in response to the sentencing of 10 activists connected with the award-winning human rights and environmentalist group Mother Nature. According to local media, Mother Nature [...]

Personal photos of Australian children are being misused to power artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. According to the report, these pictures are obtained from the web without the children’s or their families’ knowledge or consent and compiled in a data set that companies use to train their AI tools. HRW, [...]

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), an organisation led by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International (CEHRI), a non-profit organisation that advocates for liability for international crimes, filed a case in Austria calling for investigations into sexual violence and murder in Ukraine by Russian soldiers on Monday. [...]

Aydos Sadykov, a renowned critic of Kazakhstan’s political regime, passed away two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt in Kyiv, his wife announced on Tuesday. His wife Natalia Sadykova blamed Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the assassination, stating that Sadykov’s death is on Tokayev’s conscience. In response to the assassination attempt, President Tokayev emphasized the [...]

Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Law and Justice, Azam Nazeer Tarar, dismissed on Tuesday the recommendations of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the release of the country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Tarar responded to the report released by WGAD in a statement to the state broadcaster PTV, stating that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf [...]

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio signed into law a landmark bill criminalizing child marriage on Tuesday, marking a significant step in addressing a persistent issue in the West African nation. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, which received parliamentary approval last month, imposes strict penalties, including up to 15 years in prison or fines [...]

The ACLU on Wednesday released its strategy to safeguard racial equality and civil rights in the US in the event Donald Trump is elected in November to another term as president. The advocacy group warned that after Trump left office, two-thirds of Americans believed his leadership had heightened racial tension in the country, explaining: The [...]