The United Nations (UN) has called on the Iranian government to stop executing individuals who were sentenced to death for participating in anti-government protests Wednesday. The UN fact-finding mission urged Iranian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of the press to report on the protests. The [...]

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK) filed a joint application Tuesday instituting proceedings against the Islamic Republic of Iran before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) claiming that Iran has violated its obligations under the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (otherwise known as the Montreal [...]

Amnesty International Tuesday urged Cameroonian authorities to look into human rights violations committed in Anglophone regions of Cameroon. According to their report, armed separatists and the military have been accused of killing, torture, rape and destruction of property. Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Samira Daoud commented: We call on Cameroonian authorities [...]

Activist groups filed a complaint on Monday with the US Department of Education against Harvard University, challenging its legacy admissions policy. The complaint comes days after the US Supreme Court rejected the use of race in college admissions, known as affirmative action, upending years of precedent. The lawsuit alleges that applicants who have relatives that [...]

After seven nights of protests in France over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, French police have arrested a total of more than 3,000 protesters. The protests began after a police officer shot and killed Merzouk, whose parents are from Algeria and Morocco, during a traffic stop on June 27. On Monday, French [...]

Thousands of Australians gathered on Sunday in support of the Yes vote for the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. The rally was organised by the campaign group Yes23, which is run by Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition. The group reported that over 20,000 people were in attendance at events across Australia, [...]

Grigory Karasin, head of the international council of Russia’s upper parliamentary house, stated Sunday on his Telegram channel that over 700,000 Ukrainian children had been “given refuge” in Russia. The announcement comes as the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for [...]

UN agencies expressed grave concern on Tuesday about Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operations in Jenin, West Bank, which have led to 10 deaths and approximately 100 injuries so far. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that international humanitarian law must be followed during all military operations. The UN claims that access to the Jenin refugee camp [...]

Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel’s supreme state legislative body, made an initial reference on Tuesday to a new bill limiting the Supreme Court’s power to rule against the government. In a 9-6 vote, lawmakers in the Constitutional Law and Justice Committee voted in favor of a bill limiting “reasonableness” as a standard of judicial [...]

UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Nderitu welcomed on Monday the life imprisonment sentence that the Paris Assize Court issued Philippe Hategekimana on June 28. Hategekimana was sentenced to life imprisonment for the genocide crimes that he committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The trial of Hategekimana [...]