The UK government introduced on Tuesday reforms under the Sentencing Bill to crackdown on violent offenders and reinforce victim protection. The reform bill is a part of Sunak’s government’s ongoing crackdown on violent offenses in the UK. The bill aims to see rapists serve their full court-sentenced prison time. On the other hand, the bill [...]
The US Supreme Court announced a code of ethics Monday amid ethics scandals and public pressure. The new code claims to respond to the “misunderstanding that the Justices of Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules.” It is made up of five canons and four pages [...]
Nigeria’s two largest labor unions launched on Tuesday a nationwide strike that is expected to continue indefinitely, until “the government at all levels wakes up to their responsibilities.” The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) jointly announced the strike in defiance of a court order following the assault of the NLC [...]
Palestinian human rights organizations and others sued US President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken for allegedly violating the duty to prevent genocide and complicity in genocide in relation to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the case on Monday on behalf [...]
France issued arrest warrants on Wednesday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad, the de facto chief of the Syrian elite military unit, as well as two high-ranking armed forces generals. The arrest warrants stem from two chemical weapons attacks that occurred in Ghouta, Syria in August 2013. The warrants are in [...]
The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s Rwanda plan is unlawful. Justices deciding the case held that the policy violated section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) in that the plan is incompatible with human rights standards the UK is obligated to uphold. The Rwanda plan was an immigration policy used [...]
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced on Tuesday coordinated sanctions with the US to target Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leaders and financial supporters. The goal of the sanctions is to restrict the terror groups’ operational abilities. The sanctions include travel bans, asset freezes and arms embargoes against four Hamas senior leaders and two [...]
During a Cabinet meeting held Monday, the Nepalese government banned the social media platform TikTok, according to local newspaper Kantipur. Minister for Communication Rekha Sharma announced the decision by underlining the “negative effects of on social harmony and goodwill.” She also mentioned that preparations for the implementation of the decision are already underway. Sharma also [...]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a request Tuesday for an emergency seal of evidence related to the Georgia election interference case against former US President Donald Trump and multiple former Trump attorneys and staff members. The filing comes amid major evidentiary leaks, published by ABC News and The Washington Post, of video interrogations [...]
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka declared Tuesday that several former politicians, including former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, breached the public trust and violated Article 12 (1) of the Sri Lankan Constitution in their management of the economy. The bench ruled by a majority of [...]